Regulatory bodies in electricity sector are trying to find suitable methods to compensate the effects of cost reductions emerged from regulatory models used to control electricity distribution monopolies. Quality aspects have to be recognised also due to growing interest stemming from the customers. This paper describes the regulatory measures taken by several European regulators in order to im...

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) networks of electric power transmission and distribution control centers that were isolated are now connecting to corporate networks, to vendors networks, and even with the Internet in order to increase productivity in a global and open electricity market. This model, Automation Technology (AT) networks connected with Information Technology (IT) ...

Developing energy consumption models for smart buildings is important for studying demand response, home energy management, and distribution network simulation. In this work, we develop parsimonious Markovian models of smart buildings for different periods in a day for predicting electricity consumption. To develop these models, we collect two data sets with widely different load profiles over ...

During periods of market stress, electricity prices can rise dramatically. Electricity retailers cannot pass these extreme prices on to customers because of retail price regulation. Improved prediction of these price spikes, therefore, is important for risk management. This paper builds a time-varying-probability Markov-switching model of Queensland electricity prices, aimed particularly at for...

An important building block of a new sustainable energy infrastructure is the transition of the transportation sector from inefficient internal combustion engines towards electric drives. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are promising power sources since they can generate electricity from the electrochemical oxidation of a fuel, e.g. hydrogen or methanol, which would provide higher ...

Energy storage can provide services to several sectors in electricity industry, including generation, transmission and distribution, where conflicts and synergies may arise when storage is used to manage network congestion and provide services in energy and balancing markets. In this context, this study proposes an optimisation model to coordinate multiple services delivered to various market p...

This paper proposes a smart grid solution for the electricity needs of North and East Sri Lanka (NE-SL); the solution proposed in this paper is a collection of smaller and greener electricity generators, geographically dispersed throughout the NE-SL region. At present, electricity is not available in most of the NE-SL due to the civil war. There is practically no electricity production and dist...

Retail electrical power marketers, also known as retailers, typically set up contracts with suppliers to secure electricity at fixed prices on the one hand and with end users to meet their load requirements at agreed rates on the other hand. High penetration of distributed generation (DG) resource is increasingly observed worldwide. From the viewpoint of a retailer, this paper analyzes the prob...

Recently, the worldwide electricity distribution and supply network underwent major changes to satisfy the increased demand for efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. SmartGrids use information and communication technology to underpin the network’s infrastructure and performance. Specifically, SmartGrids are concerned with policy demands to address global warming and carbon dioxide emissi...