Background and purpose: Due to the lack of accurate statistics on the amount of waste generated in the energy production sector in Zahedan, before any planning, one should identify all waste producing centers associated with the energy sector and also the quantity and quality of their waste in Zahedan. Materials and methods: This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. It examined the ...

In this paper, a comprehensive mathematical model for designing an electric power supply chain network via considering preventive maintenance under risk of network failures is proposed. The risk of capacity disruption of the distribution network is handled via using a two-stage stochastic programming as a framework for modeling the optimization problem. An applied method of planning for the net...

The new EU policy for climate protection and promotion of renewable energies introduces under other strategies the concept of buildings as power plants. This concept is based on so called Energy-Plus-House, the next generation of Passive House – a building that would produce more energy than it consumes. Even though the institutional policies do promote the new, innovative forms of buildings an...

Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is an essential procedure for effective and efficient realtime operations planning and control of generation within a power system. It provides the basis for unit-commitment and power system planning procedures, maintenance schedul‐ ing, system security assessment, and trading schedules. It establishes the generation, capaci‐ ty, and spinning reserve schedules...

This paper proposes a method for choosing the best coordinated expansion planning of generation and transmission systems considering an annual outage cost and a probabilistic power system reliability criterion (RLOLEGTS). The objective method minimizes a total cost which are not only an investment budget for constructing new generators and transmission lines but also an annual outage cost. Main...

Abstract Reliability and active power loss are two fundamental parameters in the design and planning of distribution systems that have always attracted the attention of power distribution systems designers and engineers. The improvement of reliability and the reduction of power loss are investigated as the primary objective functions and voltage profile as the secondary objective function. A me...