Microgrids are the solution to the growing demand for energy in the recent times. It has the potential to improve local reliability, reduce cost and increase penetration rates for distributed renewable energy generation. Inclusion of Renewable Energy Systems(RES) which have become the topic of discussion in the recent times due to acute energy crisis, causes the power flow in the microgrid to b...

Facing the recent growing concern about the environment and electric power crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, efficient use of energy has become an important issue. A smart grid that is a next-generation electric power network is expected to be one of the solutions and to form an enormous market. Aiming to enter this new smart grid market, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. es...

With the development of renewable energy and changes in characteristics power grid, it is becoming increasingly difficult to balance supply demand space time. In addition, requirement for improved dispatching capability grid increasing. Therefore, potential flexible load should be realized, which can promote large-scale consumption construction new grid. Based on analysis existing studies diffe...

Smart Grid solutions are being rolled out at large scale these days. While security concerns are addressed on various levels and sophisticated technical measures applied, privacy issues are still not fully understood yet. The generation of high-frequency meter readings exposes customers to new threats. Various politic initiatives thus aim towards a strong regulatory framework to enable an appro...

Economical harvesting of electrical energy on a large scale considering the environmental issues is a challenge. As a solution, Microgrids (MGs) promise to facilitate the widely penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) and energy storage devices into the power systems, reduce system losses and greenhouse gas emissions, and increase the reliability of the electricity supply to the customer...

Although Smart Grids may represent the solution to the limits of nowadays Power Grid, the turnover may not occur in the next future yet due the complex nature of energy distribution. Thus, as a more short term effort, to improve the responsiveness of the energy demand to the power grid load, more and more energy providers apply dynamic pricing schemes for grid users. Believing that dynamic pric...

A fault protection and location method for a dc bus micro grid system is presented in this paper. If a fault causes the dc bus to de-energize completely, it makes locating faults very difficult. The proposed algorithm can be implemented and executed by an intelligent electrical device for an individual node. The bus was segmented into overlapping nodes and links with circuit breakers (CBs) to i...

In order to achieve good product quality in electroplating, disturbance variables such as the "dog bone" effect must be avoided. this work, approach was used develop a method for marking protection. With defined structure and optimal parameters, it is possible deposit unique visually non-differentiable layers on suitable substrates. The deposited their local distribution were characterized by c...

This paper presents a method of hardening the 8051 micro-controller, able to assure reliable operation in the presence of bit flips caused by radiation. Aiming at avoiding such faults in the 8051 micro-controller, Hamming code protection was used in its SRAM memory and registers. A VHDL code has been used for this hamming code protection. Keywords—Radiation, hardening, bitflip, hamming code.