The provision of both electrical and mechanical energy services can play a critical role in poverty alleviation for the almost two billion rural users who currently lack access to electricity. Distributed generation using diesel generators remains a common means of electricity provision for rural communities throughout the world. Due to rising fuel costs, the need to address poverty, and conseq...

E lectricity has particular importance in the national economy and providing socio-economic welfare. It is considered an essential infrastructure of the countries development. This is why the management of electricity consumption and the formulation of proper policies for it is very important for policy-makers. To do this successfully, it is necessary to identify energy consumption p...

We describe the background and analytical framework for a mathematical optimization model for home energy management systems (HEMS) to efficiently shift electricity load. We illustrate the flexibility of the model by modularizing various available technologies such as plug-in electrical vehicle, battery storage, automatic window opening, etc. The analysis shows that the end user can accrue econ...

The goal of residential load management is to manipulate the electricity demand of a group of consumers to match some desired shape. Effective load management needs two types of controls: systemic and local. Systemic control manipulates the aggregate power by signaling the consumers. Local control determines how the power consumer reacts to the signals. I present a price responsive intelligent ...

Energy efficiency is likely to influence the characteristics and magnitude of residential energy demand in the future. In particular, improved thermal insulation, patterns of appliance ownership, and turnover of housing stock will change the residential energy landscape. The economics of residential micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) a technology to provide heat and some electricity to i...

“Smart grid”-enabled demand response (DR) provides significant opportunities to improve today’s electricity grids’ reliability, efficiency, affordability and security. In contrast to conventional DR, electricity storage in buildings (residential or commercial) can provide essential, flexible and reliable DR service without requiring consumers to operate their appliances on shifted or reduced sc...

The residential demand for electricity, studied on the national level for many years, is here investigated on the regional level. A survey of the literature is first presented outlining past econometric work in the field of electrical energy demand. An econometric model is then presented using a 1970 cross-section of sixty-seven New England electric utilities and their service areas as the data...

Energy powers the world's economic engine and there exists a very strong relationship between the quantity of energy used and the development of the economy. It is true that the continuous increase in the per capita consumption of power from 176 KWh in 198081 to 1000 KWh in 2011-2012 is considered to be an effective indicator of growth, However this ever increasing consumption has negative impa...

Consumption of energy is influenced by a multitude of factors. Beyond factors determining the demand for a specific energy service, characteristics of and attitudes to the energy product delivering the service can also strongly affect this demand. Attributes of electricity which may influence the demand for electricity services include its cost, its environmental impacts, and the social/politic...