Striving to achieve sustainable development goals and taking care of the environment into policies car manufacturers forced search for alternative sources vehicle propulsion. One way implement a policy is use electric motors in cars. The observable market provides consumers with wide spectrum choices specific model that would meet their expectations. Currently, there are 53 different models on ...

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has implemented Convergence Bidding (CB) on February 1, 2011 under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) September 21, 2006 Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade (MRTU) Order. CB is a financial mechanism that allows market participants, including electricity suppliers, consumers and virtual traders, to arbitrage price differences betwe...

The battery of electric vehicles (EV) can be charged from the power grid or discharged back to it. Parking lots can aggregate hundreds of EVs which makes them a significant and flexible load/generation component in the grid. In a smart grid environment, the smart parking lot (SPL) can benefit from the situation of the simultaneous connection to the EVs and power grid. This paper proposes a new ...

This paper addresses three questions that are relevant to integrating different regional transmission areas. Market integration normally increases the number of competitors and should therefore reduce prices but the first section shows that prices could rise when the number of generators initially increases. Regulatory effort will also be affected by market integration. If the number of generat...

This paper provides a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of online advertising markets, based on a dataset of sponsored search queries provided by Microsoft Research. The study was performed using techniques from agent-based computing, data mining and from the emergent discipline of complex systems analysis. First, we look at how the display rank of a URL link influences its clic...