Since the beginning of the century, US electric power systems have increasingly become dominated by natural gas-fired power plants. In this context, the traditional concern of electricity regulators to ensure that market ...

Capacity margins in the Spanish electricity system are currently in safe levels. However, this situation may no longer hold in the medium- to long-term, as there is considerable uncertainty about the evolution of the ...

Durante los últimos años, los ciclos combinados se han visto significativamente desplazados del mercado español debido a la menor demanda y su mayor cobertura con fuentes de energía renovables. La reducción de su producción, ...

Energy consumed in buildings accounts for about 40% and 25% of total annual energy consumption in the United States (U.S.) and China, respectively. This paper describes a regional analysis of the potential for distributed ...

In light of European electricity market liberalization this master‘s thesis addresses the envisaged grid interconnection – a high voltage subsea cable with 200 megawatt transmission capacity – between the two EU member ...

Increasing concerns over global warming, unstable prices of fossil fuels, pollution are only few of the reasons for the growth of the renewable generation. Renewable generation is supported at different levels, but ...

The progressive trend in favor of renewable energy has been accelerating during the past few decades. This inclination for clean energy swept over the whole world and, China which is the biggest developing country and ...

Due to increasing competition and margin reduction, gas and electricity retailing activities require a good understanding of costs to make the business profitable. One of these outflows is the imbalance cost, which comes ...

This Master’s Thesis is devoted to carry out an analysis of the economic consequences from the wind power integration within an specific aFRR control area (“Zona de Regulación”). This integration should be understood as a ...

The increasing incorporation of renewable energies in the electrical system needs more and more energy storage systems due to their intermittent associated production. Currently, the industry's state of the art technology ...