Renewables and Efficiency

A guide to a multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from noted experts in the energy and utilities fields. Advances in Energy Systems offers a stellar collection of articles selected from the acclaimed journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Energy and Environment. The journalcovers all aspects of energy policy. science and technology. environmental …

Future large-scale space solar power (SSP) will form a very complex integrated system of systems requiring numerous significant advances in current technology and capabilities. Ongoing technology developments have narrowed many of the gaps. but major technical. regulatory. and conceptual hurdles remain. Continuing systems concept studies and analyses will be critical …

The multidimensional character of renewable energy sources (RES) necessitates the collection of a number of related data in order to support EU policy needs. Apart from the technology and technophysical data also socioeconomic (e.g. employment. turnover) data and R&amp.D expenditures are of critical relevance. The monitoring of the above RES …

Artificial neural networks with six inputs have been developed in order to identify an accurate model site-specific wind turbine performance. Results of this modelling technique were compared with parametric. non-parametric. and discrete methods. For the two turbines studied. it has been demonstrated that the strategic incorporation of 6 inputs in …

This research paper presents an accurate and fast algorithm to identify the optimum location and size of large scale PV units in sub-transmission networks to reduce reactive power losses. It can be concluded that the integration of large scale unity power factor operated PV unit provides positive outcome in terms …

Electric vehicles’ chargers are seen to be beneficial for both consumers and grid. In this paper. the use of EVs on the Microgrid performance was explored. A multi-objective optimization problem comprising the amount of charging discharging cost. power loss and voltage profile was developed. Differential Evolution algorithm was adopted to …

Wind energy stands out as one of the most mature renewable energies. in terms of technological development and diffusion. The socioeconomic and environmental benefits. which arise from its emergence. have triggered an increasing interest of practitioners. Concerning the socioeconomic field. the quantification of the impact of renewable energies in the …

In this paper. the impact of PV as an RES on the distribution network and the associated penetration issues in the electrical system has been comprehensively presented. The importance of PV as a significant source of power and its generation capability is shown as a prelude in this review. The …

In this paper. the fuel cost objective function of the IEEE30 bus system is optimized considering different operating conditions of the power system under study. in first time we consider the system without any renewable source. then the Wind farms penetration in the IEEE 30 bus can reduce efficiently the …

The paper analyses the energy percentage difference between the tracking and fixed structure PV systems and the daily PR for the systems installed at the IIT-Kanpur. It has been observed that the energy percentage difference is significantly lower than the simulated value acquired by PVSyst for two of the technologies. …