Replacing a portion of current light duty vehicles (LDV) with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) offers the possibility to reduce the dependence on petroleum fuels together with environmental and economic benefits. The charging activity of PHEVs will certainly introduce new load to the power grid. In the framework of the development of a smarter grid, the primary focus of the present stud...

Electricity is indispensable and of strategic importance to national economies. Consequently, electric utilities make an effort to balance power generation and demand in order to offer a good service at a competitive price. For this purpose, these utilities need electric load forecasts to be as accurate as possible. However, electric load depends on many factors (day of the week, month of the y...

The nature of light as an electromagnetic wave with transverse components has been confirmed using optical polarizers, which are sensitive to the orientation of the electric field. Recent advances in nanoscale optical technologies demand their magnetic counterpart, which can sense the orientation of the optical magnetic field. Here we report that subwavelength metallic apertures on infinite pla...

Game theoretic approaches to the study of electricity markets have been explored for decades [2], [7], [10]. Recently problems associated with variations of the optimal power flow problem with static (inelastic) demand for an electrical power grid [5], [21], [22], have been considered by several authors, e.g., [15], [17]. Indeed, demand elasticity for electricity is motivated by the onset of po...

with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...

This work aims to provide an energy and critical analysis of the new “ecological scenario” that sees world shift transport sector from classic fossil-fueled traction towards a purely electric traction. Is it transition cleaner more environmentally friendly world? is central question we need answer. In this context forced electrification passenger vehicles, authors estimated electricity surplus ...

This paper examines the role of energy efficiency in enhancing electric system reliability. In many states that have enacted utility restructuring legislation, and thus far in Congress, energy efficiency advocates have had trouble convincing legislators of the connection between end-use efficiency and system reliability, and thereby persuading them to include support for end-use efficiency prog...

A recently developed state-of-the-art agent-based simulation of power distribution systems is capable of modeling the thermal and demand response behavior of many thousands of thermostatic end-use loads. It computes the total power consumed by electric power customers when responding to real-time prices. Investigation of the initialization transients has led to a more precise understanding of t...