The aim of this thesis is to investigate novel recharging schemes for energy demand management (DM) of electric vehicles (EVs). While there has been a lot of work highlighting the importance of energy DM of EVs, most of the reported works do not expand on suggesting how such a DM system may be implemented. In this thesis the focus is on two aspects of DM system implementation. At the instantane...

The awareness of energy consumption is an important factor for production. Energy consumption is related to costs. Regulations and laws have to be fulfilled. Furthermore, the ecological aspects have to be considered. Nevertheless, competitive goals prohibit an solely energy driven production control. In this paper, we describe the use case of demand-side energy management in the context of the ...

Detailed residential energy consumption data can be used to offer advanced services and provide new business opportunities to all participants in the energy supply chain, including utilities, distributors and customers. The increasing interest in the residential consumption data is behind the roll-out of smart meters in large areas and led to intensified research efforts in new data acquisition...

How are energy-consuming processes matched with energy supply in constantly working heart muscle cells? A new piece in the puzzle of myocardial gene regulation indicates that two main inducers of energy production also increase the abundance of a major consumer. Watanabe et al. convincingly demonstrate that mitochondrial transcription factors A (TFAM) and B2 (TFB2M) not only stimulate mitochond...

This paper compares two second-generation dynamic energy demand models, a translog Ž . Ž . TL and a general Leontief GL , in the study of price elasticities and factor substitutions of nine Swedish manufacturing industries: food, textiles, wood, paper, printing, chemicals, non-metallic minerals, base metals and machinery. Several model specifications are tested with likelihood ratio test. There...

Power companies such as Southern California Edison (SCE) uses Demand Response (DR) contracts to incentivize consumers to reduce their power consumption during periods when demand forecast exceeds supply. Current mechanisms in use offer contracts to consumers independent of one another, do not take into consideration consumers’ heterogeneity in consumption profile or reliability, and fail to ach...

This lecture provides an introduction to the problem of managing the energy demand of mobile devices. Reducing energy consumption, primarily with the goal of extending the lifetime of battery-powered devices, has emerged as a fundamental challenge in mobile computing and wireless communication. The focus of this lecture is on a systems approach where software techniques exploit state-of-the-art...