Energy is the basic necessity for the economic development of a country. Many functions necessary to present-day living grind to halt when the supply of energy stops. It is practically impossible to estimate the actual magnitude of the role that energy has played in building up present-day civilization. In this modern world, the dependence on electricity is so much that it has become a PART & P...

The HOMER Micropower Optimization Model is a computer model developed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to assist in the design of micropower systems and to facilitate the comparison of power generation technologies across a wide range of applications. HOMER models a power system’s physical behavior and its life-cycle cost, which is the total cost of installing and operati...

Electricity industries worldwide have been restructured in order to introduce competition.As a result, decisionmakers are exposed to volatile electricity prices, which are positively correlated with those of natural gas in markets with price-setting gas-fired power plants. Consequently, gas-fired plants are said to enjoy a “natural hedge.” We explore the properties of such a built-in hedge for ...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential for electricity savings with the use of daylighting integrated with the artificial lighting system and hybrid ventilation in commercial buildings located in Florianópolis, southern Brazil. Several models were analysed. Two cases were investigated: a reference case, operating only with air-conditioning system and another one with the use o...

This paper describes the potential for power plant construction to appear in waves causing alternating periods of over and under supply of electricity. The end result would be major swings in market prices as the industry moves through the phases of a construction cycle. This paper begins with some background on why these cycles should be taken seriously as we write the rules for a restructured...

Grid computing facilitates the realization of large-scale intraand inter-organization collaborative computer applications by harnessing computing, storage, and networking resources available over the Internet. The concept of grid computing paradigm is analogous to that of electricity power grid where electricity sources are connected together in a grid and consumes’ needs for electricity are ad...

Noncooperative Games for Autonomous Consumer Load Balancing Over Smart Grid. (August 2010) Tarun Agarwal, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Shuguang (Robert) Cui Traditionally, most consumers of electricity pay for their consumption according to a fixed-rate. The few existing implementations of real time pricing have been restricted to large industr...

this paper is concerned with the estimation of total factor productivity (tfp) growth for the iranian electric utilities during the period 1980-1993 on the basis of panel data. a translog cost function is used which accommodates firm - specific variability through a one - way error component model. the results show that the iranian electricity supply industry experienced increasing returns to s...

this paper expands a model different from existing models to analyze the cost and benefit of areinforced concrete solar chimney power plant (rcscpp) built in the desert regions of iran.based on the model and some assumptions for values of parameters, this paper calculates totalnet present value (tnpv) and the minimum electricity price in each phase by dividing the wholeservice period into four ...