Due to the ever-growing load, especially peak load, the increase in the capacity of plants is inevitable for the response to this growth. Peak load causes increases in customer costs and vast investments in generating and transmission parts. Therefore, restructuring in the electrical industry, competition in the electrical market and Demand Response Programs (DRPs) are of special importance in ...

Designing wireless sensor networks should meet appropriate parameters such as quality of service (QoS) defined by different users. The variable physical conditions of the environment, processing and transmission power limitations and limited communication capabilities are the most important obstacles that influence QoS parameters such as throughput, delay, reliability and network lifetime. The ...

Distributed flexible AC- transmission system (D-FACTS) is a recently advanced FACTS device with high flexibility and smaller size. The DPFC can control power flow in transmission lines, regulate bus voltages and it can also enhance stability margin in power grids. Adaptive-neural network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) combines features of artificial neural network and fuzzy controller. Th...

This paper reports on research being conducted by a combination of economists and electrical engineers at Cornell University who are examining potential auction institutions for restructured markets for electric power. As it is a report on developing results and analysis, the discussion remains general throughout. The research follows two related but independent strands. The first looks at the ...

In this article, a novel approach is presented for the determination of reliability importance measures in electric transmission systems implementing the Bayesian network. By this method, the Bayesian network associated with a given power system is first constructed where the generation units are assumed fully reliable and the required training data is provided by using the state sampling metho...

Electric power industries throughout the world have been restructured to introduce competition among the market participants and bring several competitive opportunities. Open access to the transmission system places an emphasis on the intensive use of the interconnected network reliably, which requires knowledge of the network capability. Available Transfer Capability (ATC) is a measure of the ...

Power system state estimation is a process to find the bus voltage magnitudes and phase angles at every bus based on a given measurement set. The state estimation convergency is related to the sufficiency of the measurement set. Observability analysis actually tests this kind of problem and guarantees the state estimation accuracy. A new and useful algorithm is proposed and applied in this pape...