This study investigates Smart Grid Optimised Buildings (SGOBs) which can respond to real-time electricity prices by utilising battery storage systems (BSS). Different building design characteristics are assessed evaluate the impact on energy use, interaction with battery, and potential for peak load shifting. Two extreme cases based minimum maximum annual consumption were selected further inves...

The exploitation of technologies with which to harness the energy from ocean currents will have considerable possibilities in the future thanks to their enormous potential for electricity production and their high predictability. In this respect, the development of methodologies for the economic viability of these technologies is fundamental to the attainment of a consistent quantification of t...

This paper looks at whether bribes for electricity connections affect electricity reliability. Using detailed firmlevel data, we estimate various specifications based upon repeated cross-sections and means-based pseudopanels to show that bribes are closely related to poorer electricity reliability. We find that the propensity to bribe for an electricity connection is associated with an increase...

This study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. Building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. A total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the Iranian food industry SMEs. The results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

I n this paper, the evaluation of the real exchange rate transfer and the asymmetric transmission of real exchange rate fluctuations to the export prices of food products for the country during the period (2001-2015) was studied using two approaches of PMG and GMM systems. The TGARCH method was used to calculate the real exchange rate fluctuation index and the Markov Switching method was u...

One of the goals of the government is to increase the competitiveness of domestic firms to export goods and services. Moreover, the role of exports in many economic sectors has been emphasized. There are two essential requirements for developing non-oil exports: first, the presence of firms in export markets and increasing their competitiveness; second, the survival of them in international mar...

for Seminar on 10 April 2015 Engineering electron transfer among bacteria for improved bioenergy and biofuels. Nikhil S. Malvankar. Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Fellow, Departments of Physics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Living cells are required to get rid of a large number of electrons left behind in metabolism when nutrients convert into energy. Aerobic organisms i...

a large part of the country's industrial and manufacturing units are small and medium enterprises, but these firms have not been able to play an important contribution to achieving the export development goals. given the importance of export promotion as the engine of the economy and low export share of smes, the purpose of this study is explanation the policy of export promotion for this ...

A typical strategy for dealing with commodity surpluses is to store them for future sale; though electricity cannot yet be stored on a large scale, this storage strategy will become a natural choice for dealing with electricity surpluses. However, because electricity prices can be negative, there exists another potential strategy: To buy electricity surpluses at negative prices and dispose of t...

Remarkably higher expected shares of variable renewable energy sources for electricity generation (RES-Electricity) than those available today will be a great challenge for the European power system. Bulk electricity storage technologies— that is, pumped hydro energy storage—are considered a key component while facing these future challenges. The conducted analysis is based on the modeling resu...