As the aerospace industry is moving towards the More Electric Aircraft, there is a growing demand for electrical power to feed the increasing electrical loads in the aircraft. More Electric Aircraft (MEA) and More Electric Engine (MEE) are terms that are sometimes mistakenly being used interchangeably, but that are actually very different. This paper outlines some of the issues that have been c...

There are numerous advantages of using Electric Vehicles (EVs) as an alternative method of transportation but an increase in EV usage in the existing residential distribution grid poses problems such as overloading the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we have modeled and simulated a residential distribution grid in GridLAB-D (an open-source software tool used to model, simulate, and anal...

As the Electric Distribution industry enters the Smart Grid era, it is deploying a variety of new technologies (including distributed energy resources) and communications infrastructure to enhance the performance of the distribution grid, improve customer satisfaction and reduce the carbon footprint. On the one hand, these new Smart Grid investments look as though they will pay off as customers...

1 The fundamental goal of an electric utility is to serve its customers with a reliable and low cost power supply. This goal has led to a number of standard protection engineering practices that ensure adequate service; however, with deregulation of the utility industry and increased competitive pressures, there is a desire to further improve service reliability and reduce costs. In this vein, ...

Several regions of the U.S. have sought to restructure the electric power industry by separating the potentially competitive generation sector from the natural monopoly functions of electricity transmission and distribution. Under this restructuring scheme, a central authority, which we will refer to as the independent system operator (ISO), is given control over both the transmission system an...

I. Introduction The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enacted in 2001 with the intention of ensuring affordable and reliable electricity to all power consumers in the Philippines. The EPIRA seeks to achieve this through the introduction of sweeping reforms including the restructuring and deregulation of the entire power industry and the privatization of most state‐owned power gener...

This is a project report from the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC). PSERC is a multi-university Center conducting research on challenges facing a restructuring electric power industry and educating the next generation of power engineers. More information about PSERC can be found at the Center's website: