A practical guide to facilitate statistically well-founded decisions in the management of assets of an electricity grid Effective and economic electric grid asset management and incident management involve many complex decisions on inspection. maintenance. repair and replacement. This timely reference provides statistically well-founded. tried and tested analysis methodologies for improved …
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This paper presents the design and test of a single phase and thermoelectric cooling Micro-Inverter using a DC-DC interleaved isolated boost. It focuses on the optimization of (DC-DC and DC-AC) converters performances and its physical dimensions. and presents an efficient method to track the maximum power point and the load …
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Presents a detailed and in-depth introduction to the economic and technical foundations of modern electricity markets operating with locational marginal price (LMP). Based on the author’s graduate-level course and written to fill the gap in the market for a book that not only describes the fundamentals of LMP but also …
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By 2013. the province of Cienfuegos in Cuba consumed about 5165 GWh of primary energy. of which an estimated 60 % was used to produce 767 GWh of electricity. 29 % of the primary energy was obtained from renewable fuel. and only less than 5 % of the biomass energy. …
Read More »A real options approach to renewable electricity generation in the Philippines
Environmental problems associated with emissions from fossil fuel. along with limited supply. volatile prices. and energy security. prompted developed and developing countries to find more reliable and sustainable sources of energy. Renewable energy (RE) sources. being abundant. inexhaustible. cleaner. and readily available. emerge as a promising alternative energy source. According …
Read More »Human-Powered Electricity Generation as a Renewable Resource
Energy and human’s ability to transform energy into useful work has been the cornerstone of the development of civilizations. Throughout the majority of human existence. we relied solely on metabolic energy derived from plants and animals. In only a few centuries. society has almost completely transformed. from relying on somatic …
Read More »Design of Solar Thermal Power Plants
Design of Solar Thermal Power Plants introduces the basic design methods of solar thermal power plants for technicians engaged in solar thermal power generation engineering. This book includes the author’s theoretical investigation and study findings in solar heat concentrators. a performance evaluation of solar thermal collectors. a numerical simulation of …
Read More »Siemens. GE to Add Power Capacity in Iraq
Both firms were roped in by the Iraqi government to help reduce gas flaring. which the oil ministry hopes to snuff out by 2021.
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The monitoring of human activity is. on the technical point of view. a continuous challenge in terms of design and development of innovative smart and wearable systems that aims to the dimension reduction and to the increase of the energy autonomy. These devices can implement many features. such as the …
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