In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has garnered substantial attention in the context of enhancing resilience in power and energy systems. Resilience, characterized by the ability to withstand, absorb, and quickly recover from natural...
This paper investigates hydrogen’s potential to accelerate the energy transition in hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel, petrochemicals, glass, cement, and paper. The goal is to assess how hydrogen, produced from renewable sources, can foster...
Combining wind and hydropower facilities makes it possible to solve the problems caused by power supply shortages in areas that are remote from the central energy system. Hydropower plants and highly manoeuvrable hydroelectric units successfully comp...
Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is essential for maximizing the efficiency of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. While numerous MPPT methods exist, practical implementations often lean towards conventional techniques due to their simplicity. Howeve...
Wide-Area Power System Stabilizers (WAPSSs) are damping controllers used in power systems that employ data from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). WAPSSs are capable of providing high damping rates for the low-frequency oscillation modes, especially th...
The global capacity for renewable electricity generation has surged, with distributed photovoltaic generation being the primary driver. The increasing penetration of non-programmable renewable Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) presents challenges f...
Electricity theft comes with various disadvantages for power utilities, governments, businesses, and the general public. This continues despite the various solutions employed to detect and prevent it. Some of the disadvantages of electricity theft in...
This paper presents the techno-economic feasibility of using grid-connected PV hybrid systems to supply power in large grid-dependent academic institutions. The study was conducted using the administration building of Moi University in Kenya. The pow...
The arrival of virtual power plants (VPPs) marks important progress in the energy sector, providing optimistic solutions to the increasing need for energy flexibility, resilience, and improved energy systems’ integration. VPPs harness several c...
Enhancing electric vehicle infrastructure by forecasting the availability of charging stations can boost the attractiveness of electric vehicles. The transportation sector plays a crucial role in battling climate change. The majority of available pre...
Over the years, a rapid evolution of smart grids has been witnessed across the world due to their intelligent operations and control, smart characteristics, and benefits, which can overcome several difficulties of traditional electric grids. However,...
This paper compares concentrated and distributed reactive power compensation to improve the power factor at the point of common connection (PCC) of an industrial electrical system (IES) with harmonics. The electrical system under study has a low powe...
Modern power systems are growing in complexity due to the installation of large generators, long transmission lines, the addition of inertialess renewable energy resources (RESs) with zero inertia, etc., which can all severely degrade the system freq...
The significant growth in demand for electricity has led to increasing congestion on distribution networks. The challenge is twofold: it is needed to expand and modernize our grid to meet this increased demand but also to implement smart grid technol...
Recent advancements in residential solar electricity have revolutionized sustainable development. This paper introduces a methodology leveraging machine learning to forecast solar panels’ power output based on weather and air pollution paramete...
The load margin is an important index applied in power systems to inform how much the system load can be increased without causing system instability. The increasing operational uncertainties and evolution of power systems require more accurate tools...
This paper investigates the potential of bidirectional charging using modular multilevel inverter-based reconfigurable battery systems via grid-parallel control. The system offers several advantages such as modularity, scalability, and fault-toleranc...
The successful integration of photovoltaic (PV) generators in cities requires careful planning that accounts for possible factors influencing their operation. Numerous authors have extensively studied these factors; however, the urban environment has...
Power system transformation can unleash wide-ranging effects across multiple, frequently interlinked dimensions such as the environment, economy, resource systems, and biodiversity. Consequently, assessing the multidimensional impacts of power system...
Ghana, being blessed with abundant solar resources, has strategically invested in solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies to diversify its energy mix and reduce the environmental impacts of traditional energy technologies. The 50 MW solar PV installatio...
The rapid deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems underscores their potential as vital clean energy solutions with reduced carbon emissions and increasingly competitive installation costs. This review examines PV waste management from a sustain...
This paper introduces a dynamic consensus-based economic dispatch (ED) algorithm utilizing the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to optimize real-time pricing and generation/demand decisions within a decentralized energy management f...
Accurate forecasting of the available energy portion that corresponds to the reservoir inflow of the month(s) ahead provides important decision support for hydropower plants in energy production planning for revenue maximization, as well as for envir...
We have developed a conventional benchmark model for the prediction of two days of electricity consumption for industrial and institutional customers of an electricity provider. This task of predicting 96 values of 15 min of electricity consumption p...
The battery-based multilevel inverter has grown in popularity due to its ability to boost a system’s safety while increasing the effective battery life. Nevertheless, the system’s high degree of freedom, induced by a large number of switc...
Photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely adopted for renewable energy generation, but their performance is influenced by complex interactions between longer-term trends and seasonal variations. This study aims to remove these factors and provide valuable...
The ever-increasing number of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) requires appropriate electric vehicle grid integration (EVGI) for charging coordination to maintain grid stability and enhance PEV user convenience. As such, the widespread adoption of el...
This paper proposes a single-stage direct AC to high-frequency (HF) AC resonant converter based on LLC configuration for induction heating (IH) systems or HF applications. Unlike conventional converters for IH systems, the proposed topology converts...
The economy of South Asia is experiencing growth, yet it faces constraints due to heavy reliance on fossil fuels and frequent power outages. Access to diverse energy sources, particularly electricity, is crucial for sustaining this growth. One feasib...
This paper explores how investments in research and development (R&D) and government policies impact the growth of renewable energy in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia up to 2040. The study presents four scenarios to understand how different levels of...
This article presents the development and execution of a Single-Ended Primary-Inductor Converter (SEPIC) multiplier within a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) emulation environment tailored for photovoltaic (PV) applications. Utilizing the advanced capabili...
This paper addresses the optimal conductor selection (OCS) problem in radial distribution networks, aiming to minimize the total costs associated with conductor investment and energy losses while ensuring voltage regulation and power balance as well...
To enhance the utilization of emerging energy sources, the application of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) was increasingly explored by investors. However, the immature development of BESS technologies introduced supply–demand imbalances,...
The modular multilevel converter (MMC) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission technology is essential for overcoming the challenges of large-scale renewable energy integration. Line protection is critical for ensuring system safety. However,...
The rapid proliferation of renewable energy sources (RESs) has significantly reduced system inertia, thereby intensifying stability challenges in modern power grids. To address these issues, this study proposes a comprehensive approach to improve the...
The growing integration of photovoltaic (PV) energy systems and electric vehicles (EVs) introduces new challenges in managing energy flow within smart grid environments. The intermittent nature of solar energy and the variable charging demands of EVs...
Magnetostrictive alloys hold great promise for Energy Harvesting applications due to their inherent durability. However, their implementation often results in usable voltage ranges that fall significantly below common electronic standards like 1.6, 3...
This research focused on determining the technical and economic feasibility of the design of a solar-powered electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) in Cairo, Egypt. Using HOMER Grid, hybrid system configurations are assessed technically and economi...
This paper presents an investigation into the virtualization of substation protection IED functions using a sophisticated co-simulation environment that integrates virtual intelligent electronic devices (vIEDs) with a real-time power grid simulation....
In this article, a comprehensive review of electrical microgrids is presented, emphasizing their increasing importance in the context of renewable energy integration. Microgrids, capable of operating in both grid-connected and standalone modes, offer...
It has been more than five decades since optimum power flow (OPF) emerged as one of the most famous and frequently used nonlinear optimization problems in power systems. Despite its long-standing existence, the OPF problem continues to be widely rese...
This article addresses the need for a standardized method to measure power quality in railroad systems, which differ from distribution and transmission networks. It evaluates the applicability of existing standards in detecting variations and short-t...
While South Africa is deemed one of the countries with the highest irradiation levels, it still utilises coal as its primary energy source due to its abundance. Due to the world-wide drive towards carbon neutrality, residential, commercial, agricultu...
The increasing integration of renewable energy sources is reshaping power systems from centralized, synchronous generator-based architectures to more inverter-dominated and decentralized architectures. This transition, however, results in a significa...
In isolated power systems with very high instantaneous shares of renewables, additional inertia should be used as a complementary resource to battery energy storage systems (BESSs) for improving frequency stability, which can be provided by synchrono...
The dynamics of electrical systems have changed significantly with the increasing penetration of non-conventional loads such as hydrogen electrolysers. As a result, detailed investigations are required to quantify and characterize these loads’...
In this paper, a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based method with a multi-input tensor approach is used for the classification of events that affect the power quality (PQ) in power systems with distributed generation sources. The considered events are...
Mismatched power generation is a serious issue in PV systems, resulting from unequal power generation between PV components. Solutions have been proposed to reduce or eliminate the mismatch concern. One practical strategy is individually harvesting t...
The imbalance cost pass-through (ICPT) is a flexible component of the incentive-based regulation (IBR) that empowers power producers to adjust tariffs in response to variable fuel prices, thereby enhancing the economic resilience of electricity gener...
The transition to decentralized renewable energy systems has highlighted the role of AC microgrids and battery energy storage systems in achieving operational efficiency and sustainability. This study proposes an improved energy management system for...
