Electric retail rate design is relevant to utilities, customers, and regulators as rates impact the utility's revenue well customers' electricity bills. In California, approve proposals by privately owned vertical integrated utilities. Approval, however, subject compliance with multiple, potentially conflicting objectives such economic or environmental objectives. Additionally, are price signal...

We describe a method to generate statistical models of electricity demand from Commercial and Industrial (C&I) facilities including their response to dynamic pricing signals. Models are built with historical electricity demand data. A facility model is the sum of a baseline demand model and a residual demand model; the latter quantifies deviations from the baseline model due to dynamic pricing ...

Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) are a rapidly developing technology that can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and our dependence on foreign oil. PEVs will also be an integral part of the future smart grid, due to two main features: First, PEV charging stations will most likely be available at home and at work, offering flexible charging options. Second, these vehicles will have the capa...

The main objective of the utility company is to maximize the utilization of its existing assets during their life cycle meeting both engineering and financial requirements. However, the knowledge available in the utility is unstructured and often in tacit form. This paper presents a knowledge based system for the utility companies in order to make an optimal decision on power transformer with t...

Under the limitation of investment budget, a utility company is required to maximize the utilization of their existing assets during their life cycle satisfying both engineering and financial requirements. However, utility does not have knowledge about the status of each asset in the portfolio neither in terms of technical nor financial values. This paper presents a knowledge based model for th...

Citation Amin, Saurabh, Galina A. Schwartz, Alvaro A. Cardenas, and S. Shankar Sastry. “Game-Theoretic Models of Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Utility Networks: Providing New Capabilities with Advanced Metering Infrastructure.” IEEE Control Syst. 35, no. 1 (February 2015): 66–81. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2014.2364711 Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng...

The recent changes in the electricity sector have generated a large range of new requirements not only on the electric but also on other energy infrastructures. The authors of this article identify the lack of theoretical knowledge for an integrated, technology-based assessment for possible future system arrangements, and show which type of method can be chosen to overcome it. The paper illustr...

Congratulations! You are reading a book about a technology that has changed the way we think about energy. Solar electricity, also known as photovoltaics (PV), has shown since the 1970s that the human race can get a substantial portion of its electrical power without burning fossil fuels (coal, oil or natural gas) or creating nuclear fission reactions. Photovoltaics helps us avoid most of the t...

Electricity is so basic to the world economy that certain electricity indices are used to express a country's economic standing (consumption or production of electricity per capita) and the standard of living enjoyed by a people (per capita electricity consumption in the domestic sector). Moreover, electricity supply has special characteristics which make the service unique as compared to other...