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Energies2026, 19(3), 634;https://doi.org/10.3390/en19030634 
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26 January 2026

The fastest growth in electricity demand in the industrialized world will likely come from the broad adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)—accelerated by the rise of generative AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The global “data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,779 Views
24 Pages

Accurate short-term load forecasting is vital for the reliable and efficient operation of smart grids, particularly under the uncertainty introduced by variable renewable energy sources (RESs) such as solar and wind. This study introduces ST-CALNet,...

  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,091 Views
27 Pages

23 September 2025

Accurate short-term electricity load forecasting is essential for efficient energy management, grid reliability, and cost optimization. This study presents a comprehensive comparison of five supervised learning models—Convolutional Neural Netwo...

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  • Open Access
1,800 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2024

Electric power systems with a high penetration of photovoltaic generation and a relevant fleet of electric vehicles face significant stability challenges, particularly in mountainous areas where the variability of photovoltaic resources is pronounced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,454 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2022

Hydraulic systems are widely used in industry due to their small size-to-power ratios and their ability to produce very large linear force and torque. In traditional hydraulic systems, a variable pump driven by an electric motor is often used as powe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
19,032 Views
31 Pages

Variable Speed Diesel Generators: Performance and Characteristic Comparison

  • Mohammadjavad Mobarra,
  • Miloud Rezkallah and
  • Adrian Ilinca

14 January 2022

Diesel generators (DGs) are set to work as a backup during power outages or support the load in remote areas not connected to the national grid. These DGs are working at a constant speed to produce reliable AC power, while electrical energy demand fl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,747 Views
13 Pages

Hourly Electricity Price Prediction for Electricity Market with High Proportion of Wind and Solar Power

  • Yangrui Zhang,
  • Peng Tao,
  • Xiangming Wu,
  • Chenguang Yang,
  • Guang Han,
  • Hui Zhou and
  • Yinlong Hu

13 February 2022

In an open electricity market, increased accuracy and real-time availability of electricity price forecasts can help market parties participate effectively in market operations and management. As the penetration of clean energy increases, it brings n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,580 Views
16 Pages

Methodology to Evaluate the Impact of Electric Vehicles on Electrical Networks Using Monte Carlo

  • Daniel Betancur,
  • Luis F. Duarte,
  • Jesús Revollo,
  • Carlos Restrepo,
  • Andrés E. Díez,
  • Idi A. Isaac,
  • Gabriel J. López and
  • Jorge W. González

27 February 2021

In preparation for the electric mobility technological transition in Colombia, an impact assessment of the electric power system is required, considering the increasing loading that must be able to be managed in the future. In this paper, a plug-in e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,864 Views
11 Pages

25 March 2022

Many Alaska communities rely on heating oil for heat and diesel fuel for electricity. For remote communities, fuel must be barged or flown in, leading to high costs. While renewable energy resources may be available, the variability of wind and solar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,035 Views
16 Pages

A Top-Down Spatially Resolved Electrical Load Model

  • Martin Robinius,
  • Felix ter Stein,
  • Adrien Schwane and
  • Detlef Stolten

14 March 2017

The increasing deployment of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) is changing the source regime in the electrical energy sector. However, VRES feed-in from wind turbines and photovoltaic systems is dependent on the weather and only partially pred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,874 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2017

Electric load forecasting plays an important role in electricity markets and power systems. Because electric load time series are complicated and nonlinear, it is very difficult to achieve a satisfactory forecasting accuracy. In this paper, a hybrid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,136 Views
15 Pages

Study of Electromagnetic Characteristics of Brushless Reverse Claw-Pole Electrically Excited Generators for Automobiles

  • Yufeng Zhang,
  • Mingling Gao,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Xueyi Zhang,
  • Mingjun Xu,
  • Wenjing Hu and
  • Luyao Wang

9 March 2023

A new type of brushless reverse claw-pole electrically excited generator is proposed for the problems of the low sine degree of the induced electromotive force waveform and the high harmonic content of the output voltage of the conventional electrica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
8,991 Views
19 Pages

4 March 2020

The integration of photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) charging in residential buildings has increased in recent years. At high latitudes, both pose new challenges to the residential power systems due to the negative correlation between house...

  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
1,998 Views
18 Pages

Design of a 200 W Flying Capacitor Multilevel Flyback Converter

  • Santino Graziani,
  • Thomas Cook and
  • Brandon Grainger

This directive proposes an efficiency optimization process in which the flying capacitor multilevel flyback converter (FCMFC) will be designed for the highest efficiency based on component selection, the number of flying capacitor stages, with isolat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,335 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2023

The accurate prediction of short-term load is crucial for the grid dispatching department in developing power generation plans, regulating unit output, and minimizing economic losses. However, due to the variability in customers’ electricity co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,306 Views
12 Pages

Voltage Stability and System Behavior of Cybernetic Loads in Vehicular Power Nets

  • Tom P. Kohler,
  • Niklas Willems,
  • Joachim Froeschl,
  • Andreas Thanheiser,
  • Dominik Buecherl and
  • Hans-Georg Herzog

Voltage stability has to be ensured within automotive power buses in order to reliably supply all components with sufficient energy. Especially in modern vehicles (conventional, hybrid electric, or electric), the stability is endangered due to electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,150 Views
31 Pages

Impact of Optimization Variables on Fuel Consumption in Large Four-Stroke Diesel Marine Engines with Electrically Divided Turbochargers

  • Anibal Aguillon Salazar,
  • Georges Salameh,
  • Pascal Chesse,
  • Nicolas Bulot and
  • Yoann Thevenoux

17 December 2024

The objective of this study is to understand how each variable impacts the optimal configuration of a marine diesel engine equipped with an electric hybrid air-charging system that allows energy assistance and recovery. The aim is to minimize CO2 emi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,847 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2021

Integration of renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaic (PV) generation with variable power demand systems like residential electricity consumption requires the use of a high efficiency electrical energy system such as a battery. In the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
931 Views
22 Pages

Gear Pump Versus Variable Axial Piston Pump in Electro-Hydrostatic Servoactuators

  • Alexandru Dumitrache,
  • Liviu Dinca,
  • Jenica-Ileana Corcau,
  • Adriana Ionescu and
  • Mihai Negru

21 May 2025

This paper presents a comparison of some different configurations of electro-hydrostatic actuators (EHA). The gear pump EHA has a simpler mechanical configuration, but the electronic power command circuits and the electric motor are in high demand du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,137 Views
18 Pages

19 March 2021

Load flexibility management is a promising approach to face the problem of balancing generation and demand in electrical grids. This problem is becoming increasingly difficult due to the variability of renewable energies. Thermostatically-controlled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,565 Views
41 Pages

Comparing Power-System and User-Oriented Battery Electric Vehicle Charging Representation and Its Implications on Energy System Modeling

  • Niklas Wulff,
  • Felix Steck,
  • Hans Christian Gils,
  • Carsten Hoyer-Klick,
  • Bent van den Adel and
  • John E. Anderson

2 March 2020

Battery electric vehicles (BEV) provide an opportunity to balance supply and demand in future power systems with high shares of fluctuating renewable energy. Compared to other storage systems such as pumped-storage hydroelectricity, electric vehicle...

  • Proceeding Paper
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664 Views
10 Pages

Electricity Demand Model for Climate Change Analysis in Systems with High Integration of Wind and Solar Energy

  • Juanita Acosta Cortes,
  • Marcelo Silvera,
  • Ruben Chaer,
  • Guillermo Flieller,
  • Guillermo Andres Jimenez Estevez and
  • Vanina Camacho

A novel model of the electrical demand of a power system capable of representing the hourly power load and its dependence on temperature is presented. The application of the model to the Colombian system is described with an evaluation of the error o...

  • Article
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13 Citations
3,124 Views
24 Pages

Technical and 2E Analysis of Hybrid Energy Generating System with Hydrogen Production for SRM IST Delhi-NCR Campus

  • Shilpa Sambhi,
  • Himanshu Sharma,
  • Vikas Bhadoria,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Georgios Fotis and
  • Lambros Ekonomou

9 April 2023

This work intends to perform technical and 2E (economic & environmental) analysis for the proposed hybrid energy generating system for a part load at SRM IST at the Delhi-NCR campus, India. The investigation has been done for electricity generati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,512 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2018

This paper aims at investigating the fundamental characteristics of energy efficiency for power split electronic-continuously-variable-transmission (e-CVT) hybrid systems under the operation of electric circulation, i.e., circulating part of the engi...

  • Article
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298 Views
29 Pages

21 December 2025

This study presents a comprehensive experimental investigation of a 2.2 kW brushless DC (BLDC) motor integrated with a three-shaft planetary gearbox, focusing on overall energy efficiency, battery state of charge (SOC) estimation, and real-time speed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,140 Views
21 Pages

A Photovoltaics and Battery-Based End-to-End Direct-Current Power Network for Community Solar

  • Eyad Aldarsi,
  • Rajendra Singh,
  • Jiangfeng Zhang and
  • Vishwas Powar

11 April 2025

Eliminating fossil fuel as early as possible and electrifying everything by green sustainable electric power are some of the primary solutions for tackling the climate emergency. Solar electricity generated by photovoltaics is now the cheapest source...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,318 Views
13 Pages

Efficient vessel operation may reduce operational costs and increase profitability. This is in line with the direction pursued by many marine industry stakeholders such as vessel operators, regulatory authorities, and policymakers. It is also financi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
19 Pages

To promote energy efficiency and support sustainable electric transportation, this study addresses the challenge of real-time and energy-optimal control of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) in electric vehicles operating under variable load...

  • Article
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1,318 Views
12 Pages

3 October 2024

The necessity to change systems generating electrical energy is evident. The best solution would be to use installations utilizing renewable energy sources, complemented by efficient electric energy storage. This process requires time and further dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,551 Views
32 Pages

An Intelligent Method for Day-Ahead Regional Load Demand Forecasting via Machine-Learning Analysis of Energy Consumption Patterns Across Daily, Weekly, and Annual Scales

  • Monica Borunda,
  • Arturo Ortega Vega,
  • Raul Garduno,
  • Luis Conde,
  • Manuel Adam Medina,
  • Jeannete Ramírez Aparicio,
  • Lorena Magallón Cacho and
  • O. A. Jaramillo

24 April 2025

Electric power load forecasting is essential for the efficient operation and strategic planning of utilities. Decisions regarding the electric market, power generation, load management, and infrastructure development all rely on accurate load predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,183 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2023

Because of the problems, such as the lack of an electric power diagram atlas under different working conditions and the difficulty in intelligent diagnosis of variable torqued pumping unit wells, this paper proposes a diagnosis model of working condi...

  • Article
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29 Citations
5,024 Views
14 Pages

8 February 2020

Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) can adjust their stiffness, lock a temporary shape, and recover the permanent shape upon an appropriate stimulus. They are applied in the field of morphing skins. This work presents a variable-stiffness corrugated sheet b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,183 Views
27 Pages

2 June 2025

The widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced substantial challenges to electricity pricing, grid stability, and renewable energy integration. This paper presents the first real-time quantum-enhanced electricity pricing framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,807 Views
26 Pages

Load, Electrification Adoption, and Behind-the-Meter Solar Forecasts for Alaska’s Railbelt Transmission System

  • Phylicia Cicilio,
  • Alexis Francisco,
  • Cameron Morelli,
  • Michelle Wilber,
  • Christopher Pike,
  • Jeremy VanderMeer,
  • Steve Colt,
  • Dominique Pride and
  • Noelle K. Helder

22 August 2023

Load forecasting is an important component of power system and resource planning for electrical grids. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), behind-the-meter (BTM) solar, and heat pumps will significantly change the amount and variability of loads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,233 Views
22 Pages

Day-Ahead Electric Load Forecast for a Ghanaian Health Facility Using Different Algorithms

  • Samer Chaaraoui,
  • Matthias Bebber,
  • Stefanie Meilinger,
  • Silvan Rummeny,
  • Thorsten Schneiders,
  • Windmanagda Sawadogo and
  • Harald Kunstmann

13 January 2021

Ghana suffers from frequent power outages, which can be compensated by off-grid energy solutions. Photovoltaic-hybrid systems become more and more important for rural electrification due to their potential to offer a clean and cost-effective energy s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,730 Views
16 Pages

3 February 2021

Residential demand response (DR) programs are generally administered through an electricity distribution utility, or an electric grid operator. These programs typically reduce electricity consumption by inducing behavioral changes in the occupants of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,297 Views
18 Pages

31 July 2020

Predictive controllers have been extensively studied and applied to electrical drives, mainly because they provide fast dynamic responses and are suitable for multi-variable control and non-linear systems. Many approaches perform the prediction and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,674 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Carbon Intensity of e-fuels Production in European Countries: A Temporal Analysis

  • Romain Besseau,
  • Nicolae Scarlat,
  • Oliver Hurtig,
  • Vincenzo Motola and
  • Anne Bouter

8 November 2024

The transport sector heavily relies on the use of fossil fuels, which are causing major environmental concerns. Solutions relying on the direct or indirect use of electricity through e-fuel production are emerging to power the transport sector. To en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,144 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2021

A voltage-parameter map (VP-Map) is proposed for predicting the performance of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid EVs (HEVs), which varies with respect to the parameters in a variable load and flux-weakening range, and determining the design paramete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,289 Views
16 Pages

18 April 2017

To improve the diagnostic detection speed in electric vehicles, a novel diagnostic algorithm of insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) open circuit faults for power inverters is proposed in this paper. The average of the difference between the actu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,522 Views
17 Pages

Air Conditioners (AC) impact in overall electricity consumption in buildings is very high. Therefore, controlling ACs power consumption is a significant factor for demand response. With the advancement in the area of demand side management techniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
25 Pages

14 December 2025

The high-precision establishment of drive motor models and “pump-motor” system models is crucial for the development of the agricultural machinery powertrain. The research of this paper studied the series combination of electric drive con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,881 Views
15 Pages

In order to realize emission-free solutions and clean transportation alternatives, this paper presents a new DC converter with pulse frequency control for a battery charger in electric vehicles (EVs) or light electric vehicles (LEVs). The circuit con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,519 Views
19 Pages

XGBoost-Based Very Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Day-Ahead Load Forecasting Results

  • Kyung-Min Song,
  • Tae-Geun Kim,
  • Seung-Min Cho,
  • Kyung-Bin Song and
  • Sung-Guk Yoon

22 September 2025

Accurate very short-term load forecasting (VSTLF) is critical to ensure a secure operation of power systems under increasing uncertainty due to renewables. This study proposes an eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)-based VSTLF model that incorporates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,112 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Frequency Effects on Fatigue Life at High Test Frequencies for SAE 1045 Steel Based on Thermography and Electrical Resistance Measurements

  • Jonas Anton Ziman,
  • Fabian Weber,
  • Janina Koziol,
  • Johannes Leon Otto,
  • Lukas Maximilian Sauer,
  • Frank Walther and
  • Peter Starke

21 January 2025

This research provides a method for a reliable fatigue life estimation at high testing frequencies. The investigations are based on the lifetime prediction method StressLifeHCF considering test frequencies of 80 and 260 Hz for normalized SAE 1045 (C4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,315 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2011

With the mass introduction of wind power in Northern China, wind power variability has appeared. In this article, both existing electric heat pumps (EHPs) and coal-fired combined heat and power (CHP) facilities, which are generally equipped with extr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,650 Views
29 Pages

12 August 2025

The widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced substantial challenges to electricity pricing, grid stability, and renewable energy integration. This paper proposes a real-time pricing optimization framework for large-scale EV cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,498 Views
22 Pages

8 May 2013

Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) systems have been widely used in different kinds of buildings to make better use of fuels because of their high overall efficiency. This paper presents a mathematical analysis of a CCHP system in comparison...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,928 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2021

This study was conducted to investigate the applicability of measuring internet traffic as an input of short-term electricity demand forecasts. We believe our study makes a significant contribution to the literature, especially in short-term load pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,750 Views
16 Pages

3 February 2023

In order to effectively carry out the heavy overload monitoring and maintenance of public transformers in the distribution network, ensure the reliability of the distribution network power supply, and improve customer satisfaction with electricity co...

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