Under the background of smart grid’s real-time electricity prices theory, a real-time electricity prices and wireless communication smart meter was designed. The metering chip collects power consumption information. The real-time clock chip records current time. The communication between smart meter and system master station is achieved by the wireless communication module. The “freescale” micr...

This paper considers a condition-based maintenance (i.e. CBM) model for the hydro generating unit in the deregulated power system. As the downtime cost of the generating unit varies according to the time-varying electricity price, the economic dependence among the critical component of the generating unit is dynamic. In this paper, the proposed DynamicEconomic-Dependence and proportional hazard...

The soft handoff is a process on transferring the on going call from one radio resource to another radio resource without any interruption. Rather, mobile unit looks next base station for possible new connection without breaking the old connection. This transfer of call takes place, when the mobile unit moves far away from old base station and approach toward new base station. At the far away d...

Berkeley Power Station was a world leader when in June 1962 it became the UK's first commercial nuclear power station to produce electricity for the National Grid. Berkeley then stood at the leading edge of nuclear technology. After 27 years of successful operation and the supply of nearly 40 billion units of electricity, Berkeley ceased generation in March 1989. Just as it was at start-up, Ber...

Renewable energy sources (RES) such as wind turbines (WT) and solar cells have attracted the attention of power system operators users alike, thanks to their lack environmental pollution, independence fossil fuels, meager marginal costs. With introduction RES, challenges faced unit commitment (UC) problem a traditional optimization aiming minimize total costs by optimally determining units’ inp...