2026 March - 24 articles
Secondary power supplies are an integral part of any complex device that requires power to different circuit nodes. This includes various kinds of telecommunication equipment, the aerospace industry, battery chargers, etc. Secondary power supplies in...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) can provide actionable feedback for demand response (DR) when direct measurements of device states are unavailable. We propose a reproducible, engineering-oriented pipeline for detecting ON/OFF states of end-use l...
This study presents the use of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and a thermal power plant to enhance Primary Frequency Regulation (PFR) in a power system. This integration seeks to mitigate operational challenges, such as the reduction in syste...
Increasing variability in electricity load patterns, driven by end-use behaviour, grid-related technological changes, and socio-economic factors, calls for more accurate and efficient short-term load prediction (STLP) models. This study evaluates the...
The high penetration of wind power, photovoltaic, and energy storage not only presents opportunities for green and low-carbon development, but also poses significant challenges to frequency regulation. During primary frequency regulation (PFR), impro...
Traditional thermal power systems are merging with distributed generation and renewable energy sources, resulting in complex interconnected power system networks. This results in operational burdens and complexities in thermal power plants that they...
The use of photovoltaic (PV) water pumping technology offers a viable and sustainable alternative to conventional diesel-driven pumping systems. In PV-based pumping installations, the elimination of bulky transformers significantly reduces the overal...
The rapid integration of renewable energy sources has accelerated the adoption of DC microgrids as an effective platform for flexible and reliable power generation and management. However, conventional droop-based control suffers from inherent limita...
This study presents an advanced demand-side management framework to optimize energy consumption in smart grids featuring significant intermittent renewable energy integration. The approach leverages real-time data from an advanced metering infrastruc...
Currently, the smart grid concept represents the modern vision of an automated and highly adaptable electrical grid. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are a fundamental component of a smart grid, enabling communication between...
This paper presents a novel edge-computing-based architecture for optimal inverse time overcurrent relays installed to protect mesh microgrids (MGs) with distributed generation. The procedure employs graph theory to automate the detection of network...
LED lamps have not been demonstrating the durability claimed by their manufacturers. One hypothesis is that switching transients may contribute to this. This study investigated switching-induced transients in LED lamps operated through dry contacts:...
This paper presents an optimization-based method to support distribution system operators (DSOs) in planning large-scale photovoltaic (PV) integration at the medium-voltage (MV) level. The PV hosting capacity (PV-HC) problem is formulated as a mixed-...
The increasing integration of hybrid AC/DC networks in modern power systems introduces new challenges in fault detection and grounding scheme design, necessitating advanced techniques for stable and reliable operation. This paper investigates fault d...
A wide range of factors affect the dynamic and complex environment that is the commodity market. The most significant of these are external drivers, such as political decisions and weather conditions, which cannot be directly controlled. Nevertheless...
Although interest in tidal energy has increased in recent years, its development remains significantly behind that of other renewable sources such as solar and wind energy. This delay is primarily caused by the complex and harsh ocean environment, wh...
This paper presents a detection algorithm for identifying when a sinusoidal signal becomes zero, which can provide information about its amplitude. This method can be used to detect voltage interruptions in a single-phase sinusoidal waveform, which m...
This paper presents the simultaneous maximization of speed and sensitivity in the Optimal Coordination of Directional Over-Current Protections (OC-DOCP), considering that maximum selectivity is maintained in all solutions. Only these three desirable...
To improve the accuracy of cable temperature anomaly prediction and ensure the reliability of urban distribution networks, this paper proposes a multi-scale spatiotemporal model called MSST-Net (MSST-Net) for medium-voltage power cables in undergroun...
In this work, a comprehensive literature review on power-routing devices is presented, outlining their current design principles and potential uses. Additionally, a comprehensive loss model for Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs) in the context of p...
Accurate short-term forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) output is critical to managing the variability of PV generation and ensuring reliable grid operation with high renewable integration. We propose an enhanced hybrid deep learning framework that comb...
The progressive replacement of synchronous machines by inverter-based resources (IBRs) reduces system inertia and short-circuit strength, making power systems more vulnerable to frequency and voltage instabilities. Grid-forming (GFM) inverters can mi...
Electrical energy in urban and industrial power supply networks is mainly transmitted through 6–10-kV cable networks with an isolated neutral, where most lines are made as bunches of cables. Up to 75–90% of electrical faults in these cabl...
Induction motors (IMs) are widely used in variable-speed electric drive systems, where the motor is supplied by a voltage source inverter (VSI). Thus, PWM inverter–IM combination presents several issues that can degrade system performance, part...
