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A Methodology for Dependability Evaluation of Smart Grids

  • Gisliany Alves,
  • Danielle Marques,
  • Ivanovitch Silva,
  • Luiz Affonso Guedes and
  • Maria da Guia da Silva

13 May 2019

Smart grids are a new trend in electric power distribution, which has been guiding the digitization of electric ecosystems. These smart networks are continually being introduced in order to improve the dependability (reliability, availability) and ef...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,865 Views
14 Pages

25 June 2021

This paper proposes a deep-learning-based method for frequency-dependent grid impedance estimation. Through measurement of voltages and currents at a specific system bus, the estimate of the grid impedance was obtained by first extracting the sequenc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power Distribution Systems)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,247 Views
20 Pages

Global Gridded Argo Dataset Based on Gradient-Dependent Optimal Interpolation

  • Chunling Zhang,
  • Danyang Wang,
  • Zenghong Liu,
  • Shaolei Lu,
  • Chaohui Sun,
  • Yongliang Wei and
  • Mingxing Zhang

The international Argo Program was launched at the turn of the millennium. It has since collected over 2 million vertical profiles of temperature and salinity from the upper 2000 m of the global ocean. Gridded interpolation is a technology that gives...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,527 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2023

Relationship extraction is a crucial step in the construction of a knowledge graph. In this research, the grid field entity relationship extraction was performed via a labeling approach that used span representation. The subject entity and object ent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Applications of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining)
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  • Open Access
1,470 Views
22 Pages

The increasing deployment of off-grid photovoltaic–battery energy storage systems (PV–BESSs) has intensified operational demands on battery energy storage, particularly when second-life lithium-ion batteries are employed. Due to aging-ind...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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  • Open Access
491 Views
31 Pages

28 July 2026

Grid-forming (GFM) inverters are increasingly being deployed in distribution networks to improve system strength and provide synthetic inertia. However, their steady-state influence on hosting capacity (HC) is not yet fully understood, particularly a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Intelligent Power Grids: Sustainability, Resilience, and AI Innovations)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,420 Views
25 Pages

Artificial Intelligence-Based Optimization of Renewable-Powered RO Desalination for Reduced Grid Dependence

  • Mohammadreza Najaftomaraei,
  • Mahdis Osouli,
  • Hasan Erbay,
  • Mohammad Hassan Shahverdian,
  • Ali Sohani,
  • Kasra Mazarei Saadabadi and
  • Hoseyn Sayyaadi

1 July 2025

Water scarcity and the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions have driven the need for renewable-powered desalination. This study evaluates three scenarios for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination powered by photovoltaic (PV), wind turbine (WT)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Modelling Techniques in Environmental Hydraulics and Water Resource Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,878 Views
24 Pages

Dependence of Soil Moisture and Strength on Topography and Vegetation Varies Within a SMAP Grid Cell

  • Joseph R. Bindner,
  • Holly Proulx,
  • Kevin Wickham,
  • Jeffrey D. Niemann,
  • Joseph Scalia,
  • Timothy R. Green and
  • Peter J. Grazaitis

15 February 2025

Off-road vehicle mobility assessments rely on fine-resolution (~10 m) estimates of soil moisture and strength across the region of interest. Such estimates are often produced by downscaling soil moisture from a microwave satellite like SMAP, then usi...

(This article belongs to the Section Soil and Hydrology)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,891 Views
25 Pages

Communication is increasingly present for managing and controlling critical infrastructures strengthening their cyber interdependencies. In electric power systems, grid splitting is a topical communication-critical application. It amounts to separati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid Cyber Security)
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  • Open Access
564 Views
29 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization Framework for Sustainable Operation of Grid-Connected Microgrids

  • Rasha Elazab,
  • Ahmed T. Abdelnaby,
  • Sameh A. Salem and
  • Mohamed Daowd

5 July 2026

This paper proposes an optimal operational framework for enhancing the economic, technical, and environmental performance of a renewable energy-based microgrid. The proposed system integrates photovoltaic (PV) generation, wind turbines (WTs), battery...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
142 Citations
12,792 Views
27 Pages

3 February 2016

This paper presents a framework to systematically measure and assess power grids’ resilience with a focus on performance as perceived by customers at the power distribution level. The proposed framework considers an analogous measure of availability...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilience of Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
391 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2026

Parallel converter operation enables flexible capacity expansion of energy-storage power conversion systems. However, parallel converter interactions, filter-inductor saturation, and grid-strength variations increase the risk of resonance instability...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization of Power Converters—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,570 Views
23 Pages

The increasing global reliance on wind and solar energy underscores the critical vulnerability of renewable systems to extreme weather, which can severely disrupt power generation. Accurately modelling the complex, multivariate dependencies of weathe...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Sciences)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,006 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2025

Air conditioning loads in power systems exhibit spatiotemporal heterogeneity across geographical regions, complicating accurate load forecasting. This study proposes a framework that integrates Deep Reinforcement Learning-guided DBSCAN (DRL-DBSCAN) c...

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  • Open Access
711 Views
30 Pages

Stochastic Characterization of MAC-Level Reliability and Reassociation Dynamics in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks for Smart Grid Applications

  • Carolina Del-Valle-Soto,
  • José A. Del-Puerto-Flores,
  • Ramiro Velázquez,
  • Juan Sebastián Botero-Valencia,
  • Leonardo J. Valdivia,
  • José Varela-Aldás and
  • Paolo Visconti

14 April 2026

Wireless communication networks based on IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee PRO constitute a critical component of smart grid infrastructures, where reliability and availability requirements exceed those typically assumed in low-power wireless deployments. Des...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Wireless Communication and Sensors)
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  • Open Access
692 Views
36 Pages

5 June 2026

This study presents a forecast-driven Advanced Forecasting Model (AFM) and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) framework for a hybrid renewable energy system comprising utility-scale solar PV, wind generation, and a Battery Energy Storage System. Long Short-Te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Sustainable Power Grids: Enhancing Cybersecurity, Operation, and Control of Conventional, Modern, and Renewable-Based Energy Systems—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1,388 Views
10 Pages

Do We Need to Add the Type of Treatment Planning System, Dose Calculation Grid Size, and CT Density Curve to Predictive Models?

  • Reza Reiazi,
  • Surendra Prajapati,
  • Leonardo Che Fru,
  • Dongyeon Lee and
  • Mohammad Salehpour

Background: Generalizability and domain dependency are critical challenges in developing predictive models for healthcare, particularly in medical diagnostics and radiation oncology. Predictive models designed to assess tumor recurrence rely on compr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,896 Views
19 Pages

A Methodology for Assessing Islanding of Microgrids: Between Utility Dependence and Off-Grid Systems

  • Antonio Colmenar-Santos,
  • Carlos De Palacio,
  • Lorenzo Alfredo Enríquez-García and
  • África López-Rey

18 May 2015

This paper presents a novel methodology for assessing islanding microgrids from the economical and functional perspective, for various stakeholders. The paper proposes the triggers for competitive deployment of microgeneration, storage, microgrid isl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
1,845 Views
19 Pages

5 June 2025

The integration of renewable energy into residential microgrids presents significant challenges due to solar generation intermittency and variability in household electricity demand. Traditional forecasting methods, reliant on historical data, fail t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Energy Management Approaches in Microgrid Systems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,361 Views
37 Pages

23 April 2024

To address the cost and efficiency issues of manually analysing requirement dependency in requirements engineering, a requirement dependency extraction method based on part-of-speech features and an improved stacking ensemble learning model (P-Stacki...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,170 Views
23 Pages

Mapping Tourism Stakeholders and Governance Networks to Advance Sustainable Tourism Development: A Case Study in the Lake Tana Region, Northwest Ethiopia

  • Yihalem Kebete Kefale,
  • Jan van der Borg,
  • Amare Sewnet Minale,
  • Getaneh Addis Tessema,
  • Anton Van Rompaey,
  • Jan Cools,
  • Steven Van Passel,
  • Enyew Adgo,
  • Amaury Frankl and
  • Trui Steen

25 January 2026

As an inherently fragmented and multisectoral phenomenon, tourism requires the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders. The main aim of the present study is to map local tourism stakeholders and analyze governance networks. The researchers rec...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,160 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2021

This paper presents a numerical method to address function estimation problems in inverse heat transfer problems using parameter estimation approach without prior information on the functional form of the variable to be estimated. Using an inverse an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling of Energy Systems and Fluid Machinery 2022)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,332 Views
19 Pages

In Vitro Validation of a Novel Continuous Intra-Abdominal Pressure Measurement System (TraumaGuard)

  • Salar Tayebi,
  • Robert Wise,
  • Ashkan Zarghami,
  • Luca Malbrain,
  • Ashish K. Khanna,
  • Wojciech Dabrowski,
  • Johan Stiens and
  • Manu L. N. G. Malbrain

28 September 2023

Introduction: Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) has been recognized as an important vital sign in critically ill patients. Due to the high prevalence and incidence of intra-abdominal hypertension in surgical (trauma, burns, cardiac) and medical (sepsis,...

(This article belongs to the Section Intensive Care)
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  • Open Access
294 Views
39 Pages

10 September 2026

Computing capacity has become a metered factor of production for digitally intensive enterprises, yet its consumption exhibits strong temporal heterogeneity—tidal intraday cycles, weekly contrasts, seasonal surges, and project-driven regime shi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovation and Intelligent Optimization for Sustainable and Resilient Systems)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,152 Views
19 Pages

1 June 2022

Microgrid (MG) is a combination of distributed generators (DGs), energy storage systems (ESSs), and loads connected to distribution network that can either be in islanded mode or grid-tied mode. Similarly, a multi-microgrid (MMG) system is a number o...

(This article belongs to the Section F2: Distributed Energy System)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,171 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2023

We study the backward Euler fully discrete mixed finite element method for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation; the error result of the mixed finite element solution is obtained in the L2-norm with order O(τ+hk+1). Then, a two-grid metho...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,958 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2023

The rapidly increasing distributed energy resources (DERs) in power systems are now getting interconnected to set community grid structures, where power quality will be a major concern. The grid-to-grid (G2G) bidirectional power transfer among the di...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,527 Views
21 Pages

Time-Dependent Unavailability Exploration of Interconnected Urban Power Grid and Communication Network

  • Matej Vrtal,
  • Radek Fujdiak,
  • Jan Benedikt,
  • Pavel Praks,
  • Radim Bris,
  • Michal Ptacek and
  • Petr Toman

10 December 2023

This paper presents a time-dependent reliability analysis created for a critical energy infrastructure use case, which consists of an interconnected urban power grid and a communication network. By utilizing expert knowledge from the energy and commu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Optimization and Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,143 Views
27 Pages

Grid-Based Hybrid Genetic Approach to Relaxed Flexible Flow Shop with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

  • Fredy Juárez-Pérez,
  • Marco Antonio Cruz-Chávez,
  • Rafael Rivera-López,
  • Erika Yesenia Ávila-Melgar,
  • Marta Lilia Eraña-Díaz and
  • Martín H. Cruz-Rosales

9 January 2022

In this paper, a hybrid genetic algorithm implemented in a grid environment to solve hard instances of the flexible flow shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times is introduced. The genetic algorithm takes advantage of the distribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Algorithms and Large-Scale Real-World Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
983 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2025

The charging demand of electric passenger cars needs to be considered during the planning and operation of the electric power grid, especially at high penetration rates. It is not sufficient to simply quantify these additional loads, but rather time-...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
876 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2026

Accurate multivariate long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) is critical for smart grid operations. However, non-stationary distribution shifts frequently induce compounding error accumulation in conventional architectures. This study proposes the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting Electricity Demand Using AI and Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,051 Views
16 Pages

11 May 2021

The topology of a distribution network can be represented by a bus injection to branch current (BIBC) matrix. It has been introduced and used for load flow analysis of distribution networks. In this paper, a method for BIBC matrix modification is dev...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,992 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2021

In new and refurbished buildings, different energy sources are usually exploited to reach the Near Zero Energy Building target. Heat pumps and renewables are the most common adopted technologies. The coupling of the different components with a contro...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,171 Views
39 Pages

This paper presents a novel energy management system for AC microgrids that integrates a parallel implementation of the Multi-Verse Optimizer (MVO) with the Successive Approximations method for power flow analysis. The proposed approach optimally sch...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,916 Views
18 Pages

2 January 2018

This paper presents a low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) control strategy for grid-connected energy storage systems (ESSs). In the past, researchers have investigated the LVRT control strategies to apply them to wind power generation (WPG) and solar ene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy 2018)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,188 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2015

Context and situational awareness are key features and trends of the smart grid and enable adaptable, flexible and extendable smart grid services. However, the traditional hardware-dependent communication infrastructure is not designed to identify th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid: Convergence and Interoperability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,383 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2022

A novel method has been proposed for validating satellite radar snowfall retrievals using surface station observations over the western United States mountainous region, where the mean snowfall rate at a station depends on its elevation. First, all s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Remote Sensing of Cloud and Precipitation)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,510 Views
20 Pages

The Influence of Electric Vehicle Charging on Low Voltage Grids with Characteristics Typical for Germany

  • Lukas Held,
  • Alexandra Märtz,
  • Dominik Krohn,
  • Jonas Wirth,
  • Martin Zimmerlin,
  • Michael R. Suriyah,
  • Thomas Leibfried,
  • Patrick Jochem and
  • Wolf Fichtner

The increasing number of electric vehicles poses new challenges to the power grid. Their charging process stresses the power system, as additional energy has to be supplied, especially during peak load periods. This additional load can result in crit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A World of E MOTION—Selected Papers from the 32nd International Electric Vehicles Symposium and Exhibition (Lyon, France))
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,772 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2023

In this paper, the collaboration of a GlidArc-type plasma reactor with four dedicated power supplies was analysed. Each power supply is characterised by a different design solution. Plasma generation by electrical discharge requires a careful analysi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives Technologies)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,207 Views
11 Pages

Dependance of Gauge Factor on Micro-Morphology of Sensitive Grids in Resistive Strain Gauges

  • Yinming Zhao,
  • Zhigang Wang,
  • Siyang Tan,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Si Chen,
  • Yongqian Li and
  • Qun Hao

10 February 2022

The effect of micro-morphology of resistive strain gauges on gauge factor was investigated numerically and experimentally. Based on the observed dimensional parameters of various commercial resistive strain gauges, a modeling method had been proposed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Fabrication of Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,361 Views
21 Pages

Grid Code-Dependent Frequency Control Optimization in Multi-Terminal DC Networks

  • Melanie Hoffmann,
  • Harold R. Chamorro,
  • Marc René Lotz,
  • José M. Maestre,
  • Kumars Rouzbehi,
  • Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt,
  • Michael Kurrat,
  • Lazaro Alvarado-Barrios and
  • Vijay K. Sood

8 December 2020

The increasing deployment of wind power is reducing inertia in power systems. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology can help to improve the stability of AC areas in which a frequency response is required. Moreover, multi-terminal DC (MTDC) ne...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
138 Views
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The Cost of Flexibility: Life-Cycle Assessment and Mitigation Pathways for LNG-Dependent Grids

  • Haohao Wang,
  • Liu Yang,
  • Kangan Shu,
  • Qing Chen,
  • Jinqing Luo,
  • Kaijun Xie and
  • Tai Tang

9 October 2026

Power systems with rising shares of variable renewable energy require dispatchable flexibility, but the economic sustainability of gas-fired generation is increasingly shaped by LNG exposure, fuel-price volatility, declining utilization, and incomple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Natural Gas and Hydrogen Urban Energy Supply)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,464 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2024

Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), which are resistant to corrosion, are used as reinforcement material for concrete. However, the flexural behavior of concrete members reinforced with FRPs can vary depending on the properties of FRPs. In this study,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fiber Reinforced Polymers Applications as Reinforcement of Concrete Structures—Design Aspects, Tests and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,877 Views
23 Pages

Correcting Swath-Dependent Bias of MODIS FRP Observations With Quantile Mapping

  • Inderpreet Kaur,
  • Imke Hüser,
  • Tianran Zhang,
  • Berit Gehrke and
  • Johannes W. Kaiser

21 May 2019

Active fire observations with satellite instruments exhibit a well-documented increase of the detection threshold with increasing pixel footprint size, i.e., distance from the sub-satellite point. This results in a viewing angle-dependent, negative b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
16,622 Views
16 Pages

Getting Smart? Climate Change and the Electric Grid

  • Jennie C. Stephens,
  • Elizabeth J. Wilson,
  • Tarla R. Peterson and
  • James Meadowcroft

5 September 2013

Interest in the potential of smart grid to transform the way societies generate, distribute, and use electricity has increased dramatically over the past decade. A smarter grid could contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation by incr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges in Alternative Energy)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,950 Views
20 Pages

The Grid Independence of an Electric Vehicle Charging Station with Solar and Storage

  • Alex Caines,
  • Aritra Ghosh,
  • Ankur Bhattacharjee and
  • Adam Feldman

26 November 2021

The UK government has set a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. This will create a shift to electric vehicles. which will present a substantial impact on the grid. Therefore, methods to reduce the charging station’s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Related Researches in Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,390 Views
22 Pages

20 January 2025

The integration of electromobility with its required charging infrastructures into the existing power grid, which is demanded by politics and society, is an enormous challenge for electrical power grid operators. Especially considering further challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Quality in Modern Distribution Systems: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,352 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2019

This paper proposes a fuzzy logic-based controller for a wind turbine system to provide frequency support for a smart grid. The designed controller is aimed to provide an appropriate dynamic droop rate depending on the local measurements of each wind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic in Power Electronics, Motor Drives, Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,693 Views
17 Pages

A Smarter Grid for Renewable Energy: Different States of Action

  • Clark Koenigs,
  • Mudita Suri,
  • Amelia Kreiter,
  • Caroline Elling,
  • Julia Eagles,
  • Tarla R. Peterson,
  • Jennie C. Stephens and
  • Elizabeth J. Wilson

15 November 2013

Smart grid has strong potential to advance and encourage renewable energy deployment, but given the multiple motivations for smart grid, renewables are not always central in smart grid policy discussions. The term “smart grid” represents a set of tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges in Alternative Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,747 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2022

Grid-connected PV battery systems for private homes are becoming increasingly popular in many countries, including Sweden. This study aimed to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of such distributed, grid-connected PV battery systems for single...

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