Orderly power consumption is an important method for maintaining the supply–demand balance in the power system. However, the large-scale integration of renewable energy significantly raises demand-side load flexibility requirements, challenging...
A DC microgrid has many advantageous features, such as low power losses, zero reactive power, and a simple interface with renewable energy sources (RESs). A bipolar DC microgrid is also highlighted due to its high-power quality, improved reliability,...
2 December 2018
Background Daytime sleepiness can be assessed by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), which is widely used in the field of sleep medicine as a subjective measure of a patient’s sleepiness. Also, health utility assessed by the mean Short-Form Six...
Stochastic failures in a distribution network result in different reliability events, such as voltage sags and momentary and sustained interruptions, causing significant financial losses for many customers. Strategic utilization of energy storage sys...
In order to solve the problem of randomness and volatility caused by the rapid growth of renewable energy (RE), energy storage systems (ESSs)—as an important means of regulation—can effectively improve the flexible regulation capacity of...
A self-sustainable base station (BS) where renewable resources and energy storage system (ESS) are interoperably utilized as power sources is a promising approach to save energy and operational cost in communication networks. However, high battery pr...
Demand-side management has been demonstrated as an efficient and feasible method to unlock the flexibility on the demand side and support the flexible regulation of power systems. In integrated energy systems (IES) of buildings, through energy storag...
Energy storage systems (ESSs) have recently emerged as a common solution for mitigating the variability of intermittent renewable energy sources. A major challenge linked to ESSs is their expense. This study focuses on investigating techniques to dec...
The aim of this paper is to compare the operational pattern of an energy storage system (ESS) in a vertically-integrated utility and in a deregulated market environment for different levels of wind integration. As the main feature of a vertically-int...
Ecosystem benefits, now known as ecosystem services (ESs), confront continuous threats from human activities and lack adequate protection, often suffering degradation and destruction despite their inherent advantages. This paper aims to introduce the...
Various attempts have been made to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector as part of global net zero emissions trends. Among them, interest in the use of energy storage systems (ESSs) for energy efficiency is growing. Utilities intend to improv...
Ecosystem services (ESs) are highly vulnerable to human activities. Understanding the relationships among multiple ESs and driving mechanisms are crucial for multi-objective management in complex social-ecological systems. The goals of this study are...
With high renewable penetration, primary frequency regulation (PFR) in low-inertia power systems faces a critical challenge of balancing frequency security with sustainable energy storage system (ESS) utilization. Existing ESS-based PFR studies mainl...
The widespread installation of 5G base stations has caused a notable surge in energy consumption, and a situation that conflicts with the aim of attaining carbon neutrality. Numerous studies have affirmed that the incorporation of distributed photovo...
The World Natural Heritage Sites (WNHSs), which have unique ecosystems, ecological landscapes, and biodiversity, are the common heritage of all of humanity. The evolutionary pathway of ecosystem services (ESs) in the Karst WNHS between the years 2000...
The high cost of an energy storage system (ESS) is a barrier to its use. This paper proposes a risk-based virtual ESS (VESS) service strategy for prosumers. The basic concept of the VESS service is to logically refer to a physical ESS by multiple use...
Mountains support many kinds of ecosystem services (ESs) for human beings, emphasizing the need to understand the characteristics and drivers of ES changes in mountainous regions. In this study, Nanling, the most significant mountains of southern Chi...
As energy issues are emerging around the world, a variety of smart home technologies aimed at realizing zero energy houses are being introduced. Energy storage system (ESS) for smart home energy independence is increasingly gaining interest. However,...
As renewable energy penetration increases, renewable energy curtailment has become a critical challenge in power systems with high shares of solar and wind generation. This study develops a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the day-ah...
A new controlled-release platform for hydrophilic compounds has been developed, utilizing citric acid-cured epoxidized sucrose soyate (ESS) as the matrix forming material. By cross-linking epoxy groups of ESS with citric acid in the presence of a hyd...
The analysis and application of hybrid energy storage systems (HESSs) in small-scale standalone microgrids for remote area power supply (RAPS) has received extensive attention. This application mode has its own characteristics which must be consider...
This paper proposes a coordinated control scheme for wind turbine generators (WTGs) and energy storage in microgrids with high wind power penetration. The proposed scheme aimed to reduce the system frequency deviation caused by variations in wind pow...
The rapid development of electric transport necessitates efficient energy storage and redistribution in traction systems. A key challenge is the utilization of regenerative braking energy, which is often dissipated in resistors due to network saturat...
This paper presents a novel primary frequency regulation strategy for multi-microgrid (MMG) systems, utilizing consumer theory within a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy management framework. By coordinating photovoltaic (PV) systems and energy storage syste...
The urbanization process can alter the structure of urban land use and result in variations in urban ecosystem services (ESs). Researching the driving mechanism of multi-level indicators of urbanization on the supply and demand of ESs can enhance our...
Research Highlights: Global coffee production, especially in smallholder farming systems, is vulnerable and must adapt in the face of climate change. To this end, shaded agroforestry systems are a promising strategy. Background and Objectives: Unders...
This research aims to support the goals of Oman Vision 2040 by reducing the dependency on non-renewable energy resources and increasing the utilization of the national natural renewable energy resources. Selecting appropriate energy storage systems (...
The economic and environmental benefits brought by electric vehicles (EVs) cannot be fully delivered unless these vehicles are fully or partially charged by renewable energy sources (RES) such as photovoltaic system (PVS). Nevertheless, the EV chargi...
Unveiling the scale effects on the interactions and driving factors of ecosystem services (ESs) contributes to the differentiated conservation of ESs across multiple scales. Utilizing models such as Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trad...
Endoscopic spine surgery (ESS) has traditionally been employed for lumbar disc herniation (LDH). Recent innovations in surgical methods and technologies have expanded its range to address other spinal pathologies, providing minimally invasive solutio...
The rapid expansion of renewable energy sources has led to increased instability in the power grid of Jeju Island, leading to the implementation of the plus demand response (DR) system, which aims to boost electricity consumption during curtailment p...
The major problems of our environment have become mainstream themes in everyday life of the society, with corresponding moral, political, and financial consequences. The concept of ecosystem services (ESS) surely belongs to such mainstream popular to...
Visualization is an essential tool for analysis of data and communication of findings in the sciences, and the Earth System Sciences (ESS) are no exception. However, within ESS, specialized visualization requirements and data models, particularly for...
With the rapid growth of renewable energy and the DC fast charge pile of the electric vehicle, their inherent volatility and randomness increase a power system’s unbalance of instantaneous power. The need for power grid frequency regulation is...
In recent research addressing energy arbitrage with energy storage systems (ESSs), discrete reinforcement learning (RL) has often been employed, while the underlying reasons for this preference have not been explicitly clarified. This paper aims to e...
Market liberalization and the growth of renewable energy sources have enabled the rise of generation companies (GENCOs) managing diverse generation portfolios, creating a dynamic market environment that necessitates innovative energy management strat...
9 October 2022
Managing ecosystem services (ESs) to meet human needs is critical to achieving sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions. Identifying ES budget bundles and analyzing their drivers at a multiscale level can facilitate management decision-m...
In this paper, we proposed a home energy management system (HEMS) that includes photovoltaic (PV), electric vehicle (EV), and energy storage systems (ESS). The proposed HEMS fully utilizes the PV power in operating domestic appliances and charging EV...
As the penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) increases, the rate of conventional generators and the power system inertia are reduced accordingly, resulting in frequency-stability concerns. As one of the solutions, the battery-type energy sto...
Quantifying the dynamic changes and relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) and land use change is critical for sustainable ecosystem management and land use optimization. However, comprehensive discussions on the spatiotemporal variations of...
To enhance ecosystem services (ESs) benefits and promote ecological–economic–sociologic sustainability in highly urbanized regions such as the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region, it is essential to assess the dynamic changes i...
Traditional fixed or linear carbon prices often fail to reflect the nonlinear incentives of real carbon markets. To address this, we propose a multi-objective optimal dispatch framework for integrated energy systems (IESs) incorporating a tiered carb...
Given the uncertainty from renewable production, local loads and battery operating states in microgrid, it is vital to develop an efficient energy management scheme to improve system economics and enhance grid reliability. In this paper, we consider...
The paper presents a method for managing the energy storage and use of a mobile supercapacitor energy storage system (SC ESS) on a tram vehicle for the purpose of active voltage stabilization of the power grid. The method is based on an algorithm tha...
Ensuring DC bus voltage stability is a key enabler for the sustainable development of photovoltaic-storage DC microgrids (PV–storage DC MGs), which are regarded as critical infrastructure for high-penetration renewable energy utilization. Howev...
An effective energy management system (EMS) was designed based on the Stateflow (SF) approach for a grid-connected nanogrid (NG) composed of a photovoltaic (PV) array with a battery bank and supercapacitor (SC) energy storage system (ESS). The PV ene...
As the penetration rate of renewable enery resources (RES) in the power system increases, uncertainty and variability in system operation increase. The application of energy storage systems (ESS) in the power system has been increased to compensate f...
The use of power smoothing for renewable energy resources is attracting increasing attention. One widely used resource that could benefit from this technique is the grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system. Solar energy production typically follows a Gauss...
Streptomyces is recognized as a crucial generator of bioactive molecules that benefit humanity, such as antibiotics and other medications. The Streptomyces strain obtained from the gut of Apis mellifera yemintica was utilized in this investigation to...
The heavy-haul flexible traction power supply system (HFTPSS), integrated with an energy storage system (ESS) and power flow controller (PFC), offers significant potential for improving energy efficiency and reducing costs. However, the state of ESS...
of 5