Lead Authors (LA) Stan Bull (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) Hans Larsen (Technical University of Denmark) Vladimir Likhachev (Russian Academy of Sciences) Koji Nagano (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan) Hans Nilsson (FourFact, Sweden) Seppo Vuori (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) Kurt Yeager (Electric Power Research Institute and Galvin Electricit...

Electric power systems are the structures that have the purpose of generating, transporting and distributing electricity. These structures are composed of energy generating plants, transmission lines, distribution systems and elevating and distribution substations. The biggest challenge of this type of system is that the electrical energy is not a material that can be stored. That is, so it is ...

Viewed as manufacturing, the electric power industry is more similar to process industries such as petroleum, chemicals and pharmaceuticals than to the manufacture of automobiles, electronic devices and clothing by discrete, assembly-fine operations. However, it has most of the same challenges as these other industries, often carried to their extremes. For instanze, while electricity has essent...

The ever increase of nonlinear loads in electric distribution networks causes many problems due to the high level of harmonic currents. This paper proposes a new technique for controlling a single phase shunt active power filter based on a selective compensation using the newly developed technique of harmonic control arrays. Simulation results confirm the appropriate selective harmonic compensa...

The electric power industry in the United States and in other countries is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move once highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation approach to a competitive one. The emerging competitive markets and an increase in the number of market participants ...

Smart grid is maximum optimization of energy management achieved through transmission and distribution automation, efficient use of existing network and integration of smart devices. Due to electric power system’s own characteristics, it cannot store energy in a large scale therefore electric generation, transmission, distribution and usage operations must be completed simultaneously. Due to it...

In electric arc furnace steelmaking units, the essential parameters are reducing price, increasing production and decreasing environmental pollution. Electric arc furnaces are the largest users of electric energy in industry. The most important techniques that can be used to reduce the electric energy consumption in electric arc furnaces are scrap preheating, stirring, use of burners and hot ch...