Load frequency control forms an essential component of Automatic Generation Control, which helps to maintain the power system frequency constant while maintaining the tie-line power flow with neighbouring áreas at scheduled values for an interconnected power system. With deregulation, the structure of electric power industry is changed thoroughly with multiple bilateral transactions taking plac...

An efficient distribution network must be able to supply power with good voltage profile. The main objective of the proposed work is to allocate losses of the unbalanced distribution network by the firefly algorithm in regulated and deregulated environments before and after loss minimization. Reconfiguration is one of the methods for loss reduction of unbalanced distribution network. Further, o...

The aim of this paper is to compare the operational pattern of an energy storage system (ESS) in a vertically-integrated utility and in a deregulated market environment for different levels of wind integration. As the main feature of a vertically-integrated utility is a centralized decision-making process, all of the investment and operating decisions are made with a single goal of minimizing t...

Optimal power flow (OPF) has been widely used in power system operation and planning. In deregulated environment of power sector, it is of increasing importance, for determination of electricity prices and also for congestion management. The classical methods are usually confirmed to specific cases of the OPF and do not offer great freedom in objective functions or the types of constraints that...

A new market based approach for transmission expansion planning in deregulated environments is presented in this paper. In this approach, transmission-planning decisions are made based on the electric power market conditions. The main contribution of this research is 1) Introducing a new probabilistic tool for analyzing the electric market conditions, 2) Defining new criteria for ranking transm...

Since the pilots’ dispute ended in 1989, globalisation has fundamentally altered the environment in which pilots establish their terms of employment. This paper argues that pilot labour relations have been affected by globalisation in three ways. First, the Australian airline industry was deregulated in 1990. Second, the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) deregulated the Austral...

The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor, pRb, restricts cell-cycle progression mainly by regulating members of the E2F-transcription-factor family. The Rb pathway is often inactivated in human tumors, resulting in deregulated-E2F activity that promotes proliferation or cell death, depending on the cellular context. Specifically, the outcome of deregulated-E2F activity is determined by integration o...

In a competitive electricity market environment, power producers and consumers need, on one hand, accurate load and/or electricity consumption forecasting tools. These tools will ensure an a-priori knowledge on the amount of energy needed for production. On the other hand, forecasting electricity prices, may play a very important role for producers and consumers when planning bidding strategies...