In Germany the introduction of a feed-in tariff for renewable energies in the year 2000 led to a massive increase in newly constructed photovoltaic (PV) plants reaching a total installed capacity of 35 GWp as of November 30th, 2013. The distribution of these plants shows a large disparity between regions, which motivates investigations of regional potentials which earlier studies of Germany hav...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) refers to the electricity service infrastructure between electricity consumers and suppliers and is technically essential for the realization of a smart grid environment. To implement AMI, various communications technologies are being used based on the application environment according to the utility. However, using a single communications method can give ...

Electricity market plays an important role in improving the economics of electrical power system. Transmission network is vital entity in open access deregulated wholesale electricity market. Whenever transmission network congestion occurs in electricity market, it divides the market in different zones and the trading price of electricity will no longer remains the same for the whole system. Bi...

The electricity distribution regulation and efficiency benchmarking practice in Finland has drawn attention because of its controversial regulatory scheme and arguably efficient electricity distribution sector. This study uses a computational intelligence tool, i.e., Self-Organizing Map (SOM), in the context of electricity distribution efficiency performance visualization. A SOMmodel has been b...

Accurate prediction of long-term electricity demand has a significant role in demand side management and electricity network planning and operation. Demand over-estimation results in over-investment in network assets, driving up the electricity prices, while demand underestimation may lead to under-investment resulting in unreliable and insecure electricity. In this manuscript, we apply deep ne...

In open electricity market, electricity purchasers will trade in two different ways of marketing. Contract and power auction market, a typical decisionmaking is how to determine purchasing proportion of two markets to reduce purchase expenses and avoid risks. Based on chance-constrained programming, a new purchase decision-making optimization model with stochastic constraint of Distribution Com...

accurate and effective electricity price forecasting is critical to market participants in order to make an appropriate risk management in competitive electricity markets. market participants rely on price forecasts to decide on their bidding strategies, allocate assets and plan facility investments. however, due to its time variant behavior and non-linear and non-stationary nature, electricity...