Recent developments in renewable energy generation make it possible for renewable sectors to supply considerable share of electricity all around the world. As these sectors get larger, more attention is paid to the implementation of supportive strategies with the aim of motivating renewable energy (RE) developers. At present, Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) policies are regarded as one of the efficient st...

We present a hybrid machine learning approach for information extraction from unstructured documents by integrating a learned classifier based on the Maximum Entropy Modeling (MEM), and a classifier based on our work on Data–Oriented Parsing (DOP). The hybrid behavior is achieved through a voting mechanism applied by an iterative tag–insertion algorithm. We have tested the method on a corpus of...

The European Union has set ambitious targets for deployment of renewable energy sources to reach goals of climate change mitigation and energy security policies. However, the current state of electricity transmission infrastructure is a major bottleneck for further scaling up of renewable energy in the EU. Several thousands of kilometers of new lines have to be constructed and upgraded to accom...

In many countries worldwide, investment in renewable technologies has been accelerated by the introduction of fixed feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewable energy sources (RES). While fixed tariffs accomplish this purpose, they lack incentives to align the RES production with price signals. Today, due to a growing proportion of renewable electricity, the intermittency of most RES increas...

The bilateral spot electricity market is very complicated because all generation units and demands must strategically bid in this market. Considering renewable resource penetration, the high variability and the non-dispatchable nature of these intermittent resources make it more difficult to model and simulate the dynamic bidding process and the equilibrium in the bilateral spot electricity mar...

The continuous use of fuels like petroleum is recognized as unsustainable because of their natural exhaustion and contribution to the pollution in the environment. Not only for the environmental perspective but also for the economic sustainability, we necessarily need to develop alternative, renewable and pollution free fuels. Harvesting energy from the sun (solar energy), earth (geothermal ene...

nowadays using of new energies in the form of dispersed resources in the worlds is wide spreading. in this article we will design a dispersed production source in the form of a solar/wind hybrid power plant in order to supply the energy of a residential unit according to a sample load pattern. the aim of aforementioned design is to reduce its costs in a period of 20 years. in order to optimi...

71 Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 24 number 3 october 2009 © the australian national university In recent years, renewable energy technologies have been advocated in Fiji on the basis that they improve energy security and serve as a risk-mitigation measure against oil price volatility. Despite this, there have been no published attempts to measure the impact of renewable technologies on energ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is simple and quick and has low complication rates. However, the disadvantage of local recurrence or remnant rate limits the use of this technique. We aimed to analyse the outcomes of conventional EMR and EMR with circumferential incision (CIEMR), a simplified modification of EMR, in the endoscopic treatment of rectal carcinoid tumours. METHODS A ...

Agriculture is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact. The use of renewable energy sources has potential to decrease these impacts. Maize is one of the most significant crops in South Africa and approximately 241,000 hectares are irrigated. This irrigation is most commonly powered by grid electricity generated using coal. However, South Africa has high solar irradiation, which could ...