• Why distributed? A critical review of the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized resources 

      Burger, Scott; Jenkins, Jesse D.; Huntington, Samuel; Pérez Arriaga, José Ignacio (2019-03-01)
      The recent proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) is creating new options for the delivery of key electricity services, including energy, firm capacity, operating reserves, and even alternatives to transmission ...
    • Why one becomes a responsible consumer: the creation and maintenance of responsible consumption as a self-determined personal project 

      Valor Martínez, Carmen; Merino de Diego, Amparo; Carrero Bosch, Isabel; Díaz Carmona, Estela María; Labajo González, María Victoria; Bilbao Calabuig, María Paloma (2012-12-01)
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    • Wide area controllers for excitation boosters for transient stability improvement 

      Díez Maroto, Luis; Renedo Anglada, Javier; Rouco Rodríguez, Luis; Fernández Bernal, Fidel (2020-12-01)
      Excitation boosters (EBs) are one of the most cost-effective solutions to improve Fault Ride Through (FRT) capability of synchronous generators. However, they may lead to undesired behavior in multi-machine systems when ...
    • Will the California crisis perturb Spain's liberalization process? 

      Rivier Abbad, Michel Luis; Pérez Arriaga, José Ignacio; Vázquez Martínez, Carlos (2002-08-01)
      Administrative and regulatory authorities, politicians, utilities and consumers have tried to understand the underlying reasons for the crisis and extract pertinent lessons for Spain. The Spanish situation following the ...
    • Will the market get it right? The placing of new power plants in Germany 

      Dietrich, Kristin; Leuthold, Florian; Weigt, Hannes (01/12/2010)
      This paper applies ELMOD, an economic-engineering model of the European electricity market to the issue of optimal investment placing of generation capacity in Germany under different market integration scenarios. The model ...
    • Will we always be special? Extending humanity, reducing uniqueness 

      Lumbreras Sancho, Sara (2017-09-01)
      In general, the list of uniquely human characteristics has been reduced over history, with the definition of humanity extending progressively to acommodate more members (from an initial definition that, for instance, ...
    • Wind and solar integration with plug-in electric vehicles smart charging strategies 

      Villar Collado, José; Díaz Duran, Cristian; González Gascón y Marín, Pablo; Campos Fernández, Francisco Alberto (IEEE PES (Cracovia, Polonia), 2014-08-28)
      Combining large penetration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) and generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) seems a promising solution for energy cost saving and emission reduction. Indeed, RES generation increases ...
    • Wind farms in AGC: modelling, simulation and validation 

      Doenges, Kai; Sigrist, Lukas; Egido Cortés, Ignacio; Lobato Miguélez, Enrique; Rouco Rodríguez, Luis (2022-01-06)
      Wind farms are increasingly interested in participating in the secondary frequency control, especially in power systems where AGC is organized by regulation zones comprising generation units of different technologies. In ...
    • Wind generation in weak systems 

      Rouco Rodríguez, Luis; Zamora Macho, Juan Luis; García Cerrada, Aurelio (European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality; Unive (Granada, España), 01/06/2020)
      Control systems of wind generators are usually designed neglecting the effect of the external grid (the impedance of the grid is much smaller than the impedance of the step-up transformers). Wind generator manufacturers ...
    • Wind power long-term scenario generation considering spatial-temporal dependencies in coupled electricity markets 

      Marulanda García, Geovanny Alberto; Bello Morales, Antonio; Cifuentes Quintero, Jenny Alexandra; Reneses Guillén, Javier (2020-07-01)
      Wind power has been increasing its participation in electricity markets in many countries around the world. Due to its economical and environmental benefits, wind power generation is one of the most powerful technologies ...
    • Wind speed generation for dynamic analysis 

      Fernández Bernal, Fidel; Alonso Alonso, Jesús (2017-06-01)
      A simple model to generate large band wind speed time sequences, especially easy to implement with a very reduced number of parameters, is presented. It is based on the calculation of a low-frequency and a high-frequency ...
    • Wind turbine condition assessment based on changes observed in its power curve 

      Andrade Vieira, Rodrigo José; Sanz Bobi, Miguel Ángel; Kato, So (Universidad Pontificia Comillas; IJRER; Gazi University; Nagasaki University; (Madrid, España), 2013-10-20)
      The net worth of a wind farm is the revenue from produced electricity minus the operation and maintenance costs. Therefore, it is important to monitor the performance of the wind turbines in order to minimize the costs and ...
    • Wind turbine prognostics and maintenance management based on a hybrid approach of neural networks and proportional hazards model 

      Mazidi, Peyman; Bertling Tjemberg, Lina; Sanz Bobi, Miguel Ángel (2017-04-01)
      This paper proposes an approach for stress condition monitoring and maintenance assessment in wind turbines (WT) through large amounts of collected data from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The ...
    • Winston Churchill y España 1936-1945 

      Sáenz-Francés San Baldomero, Emilio (Comunidad de Madrid. Churchill Archives Centre (Madrid, España), 02/03/2011)
    • WIP: Design of a new european higher education area degree in electronics and control engineering 

      Giannetti, Romano; Muñoz San Roque, Antonio; Rodríguez Marrero, José Luis; Rodríguez Pecharromán, Ramón (Sin editorial (Milwaukee, Estados Unidos de América), 2007-10-10)
      A group of teachers from the School of Engineering at Universidad Pontificia Comillas is working in the implementation of a new degree in electronics and control engineering coherent with both the European Higher Education ...
    • Wireless system for the measurement of passive electromagnetic sensors in laboratories 

      Galindo Romera, Gabriel; Carnerero Cano, Javier; Martínez Martínez, José Juan; Herraiz Martínez, Francisco Javier (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (San Diego, Estados Unidos de América), 09/07/2017)
      A wireless system for the measurement of passive electromagnetic sensors in laboratories is proposed. The system is based on a wireless link, including a signal generator and a signal receiver. It has been applied for the ...
    • Wisdom in St Augustine and Meister Eckhart 

      Bara Bancel, Silvia (Peeters (Leuven, Bélgica), 2021-12-01)
      El análisis de la noción de sabiduría en San Agustín y en el Maestro Eckhart puede servir de ejemplo para descubrir su profunda relación y, al mismo tiempo, para mostrar la originalidad ekhartiana. Como se desprende del ...
    • Witchcraft, Renaissance Idea of 

      Ortiz Pereira, Daniel (Springer (Cham, Suiza), 12/06/2021)
      El Renacimiento entendió el concepto de brujería de dos formas distintivas. La primera, originándose en los círculos intelectuales enraizados en la tradición neoplatónica, trató de armonizarlo con las categorías que definían ...
    • WLAB: Laboratorio para acceso remoto por Internet 

      Palacios Hielscher, Rafael; Rodríguez Pecharromán, Ramón (Sin editorial (Madrid, España), 2003-12-11)
      Este artículo presenta el Laboratorio para acceso remoto por Internet que se está desarrollando en la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. Se parte de la existencia de un laboratorio de docencia en el área de Control ...