This report describes the analysis that underlies the new design of the ancillary services markets adopted at the May 8 meeting of the Trust Advisory Committee. The main features are two-part bids, selection of resources based solely on capacity reservation bids, merit ordering of accepted resources in order of energy bids, and energy settlements based on prices in the real-time market. This de...

nowadays, energy plays an important role in the economic and community development of country. consequently, performance analysis of energy systems is one of the effective methods being used to prevent waste of energy resources. among the different power generation technologies, steam power plants make a significant contribution to power generation in iran, with a share of 47 % of electricity g...

In this paper, non parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was subjected to the energy data of wheat producers in Punjab state, India, and technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies were calculated for farms both category wise and zone wise. The main objective was to determine the strength of the correlation between non-parametric efficiencies and indices such as energy ratio and speci...

Elastic Lambda Aggregation Network (EλAN) has been presented as an access/aggregation integrated network that accommodates multiple network services. In EλAN, Optical Line Terminals (OLT) become programmable and configure Logical OLTs (L-OLT) to support network services that have different protocols and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. To achieve flexible utilization of network resources ...

BACKGROUND While the demand for the health service keeps escalating at the grass root or rural areas of China, a substantial portion of healthcare resources remains stagnant in the more developed cities and this has entrenched health inequity in many parts of China. At its conception, the Deepening Health Care Reform in 2012 China was intended to flush out these discrepancies and promote a more...

Recent ICT developments have resulted in emergence of new forms of net-based organizations. Those organizations, often called Virtual Organizations (VOs), aim at supporting engineering work by offering to engineers new on-line services that should enhance their creativity and efficiency. The paper highlights a new paradigm of collaborative engineering work that is enabled by VOs' services. Thes...

Locating suitable resources within a Grid system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and suitability of the discovered resources. An alternative approach is to categorize resources based on the services they provide – leading to the interaction of peers with common goals to form societies/communities. Organization of resources in different communities is suggest...