One of basic system services that an electricity transmission system operator guarantees is power balance maintenance. The aim of this service is to keep power export/import to/from surrounding interconnected electricity transmission systems at a proposed value. The power quantity is a random variable. Therefore, a control strategy of the quantity consists in keeping amplitudes of a power balan...

Massification of Electric vehicles (EVs) is becoming a worldwide reality as means to combat climate change and local pollution. Considering that most the time are in parking places, there an opportunity for using EVs provide some valuable services power network. In particular, can ancillary electricity markets through aggregating agent. To this end, aggregators need develop decision support too...

KEY FEATURES: Multidisciplinary team-based approach to addressing patients’ medical, behavioral, and social needs. At the heart of the Intensive Outpatient Care Program (IOCP) is the care coordinator, who links patients to primary, specialty, and ancillary services; provides tools for effective self-management; guides participants through development of a shared action plan; and provides connec...

With the introduction of volatile renewable energy sources into the grid, the need for inexpensive ancillary service increases. We propose a method to provide ancillary service by using the flexibility of demand in commercial building HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) systems. In particular, we show how a regulation command transmitted by a balancing authority can be tracked by vary...

Recent studies have shown that about 70% of the total oil extracted worldwide is consumed in the transportation sector [1]. With rising oil prices, USA and many other countries have set long-term plans to electrify their transportation system and manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce their oil consumption. It is foreseen that by 2013, approximately 700,000 grid-enabled electric vehicles...