Modern Innovative Electricity Transmission Technologies

Description of electricity generation technologies

This chapter describes the eight electricity generation technologies considered in this publication by illustrating the basic principles behind each form of electricity generation, the conventional sub-types for each technology, as well as their common application and specific technological characteristics. Lastly, it will outline certain characteristics of power plants for each technology, whi...

Electricity Transmission and Emerging Competition

Pricing Electricity Transmission in Mexico

We propose a combined merchant-regulatory framework for incentives to expand the large interregional transmission links of the Mexican transmission network. We make an initial implementation of a pricing two-part tariff model within the context of the “shadow” market of the Mexican electricty system. Our results suggest that the best institutional structure for expanding the Mexican transmissio...

Storage Management in Modern Electricity Power Grids

This letter introduces a method to manage energy storage in electricity grids. Starting from the stochastic characterization of electricity generation and demand, we propose an equation that relates the storage level for every time-step as a function of its previous state and the realized surplus/deficit of electricity. Therefrom, we can obtain the probability that, in the next time-step: (i) t...

Phatic technologies in modern society

A phatic technology’s purpose is to establish, develop and maintain personal and social relationships. The invention and development of phatic technologies, and their influence on human society, have been accelerating rapidly in the past decade, exemplified by the growth of social networking technologies based on the Internet. To understand this acceleration we propose to analyse the phenomenon...