Energy is required for everything that we do, and it is the most important thing after food, upon which the life of nations depend. Lack of power could cause economies to cripple. A flourishing power generation industry is considered to be a sign of prosperity for any nation. We get electricity from electric power generators that create electricity from natural power sources, such as water, coa...

Power had not yet been fully restored following the recent blackout that some were already clamoring that increasing transmission capacity is the best way to avoid a repetition of these events. Others were laying the blame squarely on the deregulation of the electricity supply industry. Should the United States embark on a massive investment program? Should deregulation be abandoned on the grou...

In 1991 Indian government launched systematic economic reforms programme. The infrastructure industries such as telecommunications and electricity have subsequently been restructured and opened to private sector participation. Accompanied with the restructuring and privatisation has been setting up of independent regulatory agencies for telecommunications and electricity. While there is a singl...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a fundamental step for the study and optimization of electricity production. Indeed, current power plants use water as a mean of convective heat transfer. Consequently, the simulation, analysis and visualization of fluid dynamics phenomena are of great importance for the energy industry. Electricite de France (EDF), being one of the biggest electricity prod...

Due to a variety of political, economic, and technological factors, many national electricity industries around the globe are transforming from non-competitive monopolies with centralized systems to decentralized operations with competitive business units. This process, commonly referred to as deregulation (or liberalization) is driven by the belief that a monopolistic industry fails to achieve...

A refurbishment project at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, provided the opportunity to install one of the largest building-integrated photovoltaic systems in Northern Europe. Photovoltaic panels have been incorporated into w Integrated into conventional rain-screen overcladding w Installed using normal building industry practices w High system reliability H...

The electric utility industry has undergone fundamental change in the last decade. Foremost of these changes have been numerous deregulation attempts. Producers and large consumers have built business models based upon large volume transactions, which lead to smooth production and volume discounting. The risks associated with using these traditional business models in deregulated markets are ma...

• Potential interventions on disruptive impacts of Industry 4.0 pharmaceutical CSC. Developing a novel Pythagorean fuzzy-Delphi approach. Presenting fuzzy SECA model. As transversal theme, the intertwining digitalization and sustainability has crossed all Supply Chains (SCs) levels dealing with widespread environmental societal concerns. This paper investigates potential that technologies may h...

It is seldom the case that one has the opportunity to compare investments as projected by a long-term multi-period model to what is eventually realized in practice. Further, although sensitivity analysis is of common use in any optimization setting, the impact of some parameters on strategic investments is not yet fully assessed in the context of the deregulated electricity industry. Starting w...

Forecasting of future electricity demand is very important for decision making in power system operation and planning. In recent years, due to privatization and deregulation of the power industry, accurate electricity forecasting has become an important research area for efficient electricity production. This paper presents a time series approach for mid-term load forecasting (MTLF) in order to...