Showing papers in "The Electricity Journal in 2020"

TL;DR: Growth in U.S. utility-scale hybrid battery projects suggests potential advantages currently outweigh disadvantages, but realizing hybrid projects’ full value depends on nascent strategies for integrating them in current/future wholesale market design paradigms.

TL;DR: A new approach that aggregates all available country data on reliability, defines a minimum threshold metric for ‘reasonable reliability’, and estimates the number of people without ‘reasonably reliable’ electricity services is presented.

TL;DR: Several important works of literature proposed for congestion management are critically analyzed and various optimization algorithms developed to alleviate congestion are discussed in detail.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of coal-fired and oil-fired electrical power generation on CO2 emissions in India for the period of 1976−2016 and found that the upside shocks in coal-powered electricity will contribute considerably to increase the pollution level in the long run.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of infrastructure in the economic growth of South Asia, and propose several policy recommendations to improve the performance of the infrastructure in terms of economic growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the determinants of household electricity consumption in Korea by using both the OLS regression and quantile regression and found that the effects of socio-demographic, dwelling, and electricity consumption characteristics on household electricity usage may differ between two regressions and may differ across quantiles.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors emphasized that this integration does not change the fundamental economic principles behind market design, and that such pricing is required to deliver investment incentives for the right technologies to locate at the right locations to efficiently maintain a stable and reliable electrical network.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impacts of the stay-at-home advisory issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on regional electricity generation fuel mixes for the three major RTOs: NYISO, MISO, and PJM.

TL;DR: How blockchains work and can be utilized to enhance the operation of power distribution systems are introduced and pertinent challenges for applying blockchain technologies to power distribution system challenges are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an overview of the nuclear energy history in Italy and the current and projected electricity demand and supply, with reference to the Italian framework and policies, the main advantages and disadvantages of a hypothetical reintroduction of nuclear energy are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the main economic, institutional, and behavioural barriers to the implementation of energy efficiency in final uses are identified and evaluated, and the relevance of barriers is assessed by two levels of analysis: 1. their impact on policies and measures, and 2. Their impact on the diffusion of key clean technologies and interventions in the two sectors.

TL;DR: This paper introduces TE systems and their benefits towards the optimization of grid functionality and concludes by examining a specific TE system architecture for power exchange in power distribution systems.

TL;DR: The modeling and simulation of a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system within a microgrid considering the requirements of various components of the microgrid system such as distributed renewable energy resources, plug-in electric vehicles and non-PEV loads are presented.

TL;DR: A review of the methods for the electricity grid vulnerability analysis, pre-disaster recovery planning, and postdisaster restoration models is presented in this article, where the authors present a review of their work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the evolution of voluntary renewable energy procurement goals, present a practical framework for 24/7 renewable energy procurements, and suggest policy developments that would support wider adoption of a time-matched renewables procurement approach.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the electricity production from different sources in Pakistan, and the contribution of these sources to economic growth, and showed that electricity produced from coal, hydropower, natural gas and nuclear sources has a significant influence on the economic growth of Pakistan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the drivers of negative energy prices in Germany and found that qualitative arguments and energy policy need to be taken into account for explaining the phenomenon, and for the drawing of economic and political conclusions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the electricity demand behavior for Saudi Arabia, using annual data for the period of 1990-2016, at regional level, and found that income, price and population are the main drivers of electricity demand at a regional level.

TL;DR: An integrated design considering ancillary market opportunities that accounts for different facilities with variant thermal and electrical loads, different DER configurations and energy tariff structures is developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the design and execution procedure of the photovoltaic microgrid system carried out at Lajolo Community and its neighbouring communities in Nigeria is presented, where the primary aim of the project is to provide clean electric power to the people of the communities to increase their productive capacities and improve the quality of life in the remote area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a record linkage between electricity and dam management-oriented datasets to facilitate attention to the fundamental challenge of altering operational regimes for systems that have other uses.

TL;DR: In this paper, options exist for decarbonizing the gas grid, enabling flexibility to be delivered with existing infrastructure, including biologically derived methane, synthetic methane, and low carbon hydrogen, all potentially in a global context and deployed in sectors where decarbonisation is more difficult.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the electricity consumption trend in Karnataka, examined its causality with economic growth at aggregate and sectoral levels using Granger causality test, and forecast the future electricity consumption applying Holt-Winters smoothening (no seasonality) technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of the progress of renewable energy utilization in South-east Asian countries by analyzing historical data and review some academic papers to summarize the challenges and obstacles faced by each country.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the implementation of a real-time market for reserve capacity can be aligned with European legislation, and describe how scarcity pricing based on operating reserve demand curves can be integrated in such a design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the capacity market model to support renewable resources as well as flexible conventional capacity resources is discussed. But, performance enhancement measures and related regulation of different matured capacity markets are depicted in detail, and detailed classification, fundamental design, detail comparisons of worldwide capacity market practices including earlier capacity reimbursement practices and present capacity market scenario.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzes global and regional energy and CO2 trends and concludes that domestic U.S. policies alone will not adequately insulate the United States from the impacts of climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the important technical, economic and social opportunities and challenges of optimising the value of DER integration into electricity networks and markets, and discuss the potential for all electricity system users to benefit.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe three areas where enhancements in utility resource planning can more accurately reflect the benefits and costs of renewable generation: (1) how operational uncertainties associated with wind and solar generation are characterized in planning models; (2) how reliability services provided by wind-and solar-generated electricity are valued in plans models; and (3) alignment between cost assumptions used in planning and market conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodology to evaluate different scenarios reflecting different combinations of technologies by 2030, which makes possible the interaction of various inputs to produce a least-cost generation mix.