Renewables and Efficiency

This book presents intuitive explanations of the principles and applications of power system resiliency. as well as a number of straightforward and practical methods for the impact analysis of risk events on power system operations. It also describes the challenges of modelling. distribution networks. optimal scheduling. multi-stage planning. deliberate attacks. …

The EU has given the go-ahead for a deal between Norway’s KLP and Swedish pension fund AMF to buy the biggest wind power company in Sweden.

Extracting electric energy from wind using a technology without moving parts has been a temptation for decades. The challenges have stemmed from the fact that a solution requires a multiphysic approach and mastering various fields of technology. such as effective production of charged particles. a twophase flow and proper handling …

Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm under development has reached a milestone this week with the installation of its substation being completed.

Renewable energy giant Siemens Gamesa has signed an agreement with an environmental group to look into the clean production of ammonia for energy storage.

A detailed literature survey of studies carried out during the last 10 years in opaque solar facades has been performed. The studies reviewed were grouped into the following five systems: building-integrated solar thermal. building-integrated photovoltaic. building-integrated photovoltaic thermal. thermal storage wall and solar chimney. Building-integrated solar thermal technology certainly presents …

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell called HIT (heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer). developed by SANYO Ltd. in 1994 (Sawada et al.. 1994). is produced by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of thin hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) layers on both sides of a high quality crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafer. Such novel solar …

The maritime domain and sustainable energy are two critical aspects of the twenty first century which will shape the future of humanity. Although the maritime domain is inextricably interlinked with Sustainable Energy Security (SES). many aspects are discussed in isolated silos. This book aims to fill in this gap by …

This paper presents a comparative investigation of solar photovoltaic (PV) effect on system stability at different penetration levels. Three different scenarios with their relevant dynamic models are considered. namely. distributed units. and centralized farms with and without voltage regulation capabilities. Based on these models. the impact is examined through eigenvalue. …

As wind power generation undergoes rapid growth. new technical challenges emerge: dynamic stability and power quality. The influence of wind speed disturbances and a pitch control malfunction on the quality of the energy injected into the electric grid is studied for variable-speed wind turbines with different power-electronic converter topologies. Additionally. …