The electricity grid has to respond to large power variations in relatively short periods of time. This behavior causes an inefficiency operation and design of the electricity system. The Demand Side-Management techniques are used to modify the power demand, reducing or smoothing its shape. Moreover, the electricity grid is a very huge system composed for millions of devices. There are problems...

Battery swapping mode (BSM) is an important method of supplying energy to electric vehicles, in which the battery swapping behavior of electric vehicle users affects significantly the charging behavior of the battery swapping station. To determine the impacts of a driver’s swapping behavior on the power grid and generation cost, this paper proposes an optimization charging mode (OCM) and simula...

Hastening the power industry toward smart operation juxtaposed with the unrivaled restructuring and privatization agendas, some of the ubiquitous smart grid advantages are glanced more and more. Recently, the vehicle to grid (V2G) technology, as one of these beneficial aspects, has found a worldwide attention due to its important advantages. The V2G technology can raise the system operation eff...

Projects like SETI@home and Folding@home have popularized Internet Desktop Grid (IDG) computing. The first generation of IDG projects scalled to millions of participatings but was dedicated to a specific application. BOINC, United Device and XtremWeb belong to a second generation of IDG platforms. Their architecture was designed to accommodate many applications but has drawbacks like limited se...

Off-grid has several complimentary functional applications and succinctly it has been regarded to be important technology to realize as its reliability, sustainability and techno-economic solution of energy. Among various decentralized generation techniques, hybrid renewable energy source (HRES) is one of the promising techniques in terms of sustainability, simplicity of operation and commissio...

Microgrid concept acts as a solution to integrate large amounts of micro generation without disrupting the operation of utility grid. Power generation from renewable energy sources like wind, solar, fuel cells, microturbines etc will give significant momentum in near future. Thus, hybrid AC/DC microgrid will be the best solution to reduce multiple reverse conversions (dc-ac-dc or ac-dc-ac) in a...

We study the effects of the allocation of distributed generation on the resilience of power grids. We find that an unconstrained allocation and growth of the distributed generation can drive a power grid beyond its design parameters. In order to overcome such a problem, we propose a topological algorithm derived from the field of Complex Networks to allocate distributed generation sources in an...