Although modern society is critically reliant on power grids, even modern power grids are subject to unavoidable outages due to storms, lightning strikes, and equipment failures. The situation in developing countries is even worse, with frequent load shedding lasting several hours a day due to unreliable generation. We study the use of battery storage to allow a set of homes in a single residen...

Microgrids (MGs) contain a diverse mix of energy resources to provide safe and secure power to the consumers. Batteries are utilized in MGs for further energy security assurance as well as cost minimization. In this paper, an efficient approach is introduced for simultaneous energy management and optimal battery sizing to accomplish economic MG operation. Also, demand response programs are empl...

China has a vast scale of hydropower, and the small hydropower stations account for large proportion. In flood season, excessive inflow keeps these at high reservoir level, leading to worse condition hindered power output great error in calculation generation. Therefore, this paper proposes mid-term optimal scheduling model low-head cascaded considering unevenness, which is controlled by expect...

In parallel and distributed systems, validation of scheduling heuristics is usually done by simulation on randomly generated synthetic workloads, typically represented by task graphs. Since there is no single generation method that models all possible workloads for scheduling problems, researchers often re-implement the classical generation algorithms or even implement ad hoc ones. A bad choice...

In recent years the electricity sector has undergone a number of changes that all point in the direction of liberalization and decentralization of control. However, a number of technological challenges have to be addressed before the desired degree of decentralization is obtained. Currently, most of the decisions about the operation of a power system are still made in control centers in a centr...