The European Union and its Member States are seeking to decarbonize their energy systems, including the electricity sector and, at the same time, pursue market integration. However, renewable energy (RE) deployment and the liberalization of the energy-only market have raised concerns at the national level about the security of electricity supplies in the future. Some actors consider the lack of...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that in the coming decades the United States' natural gas (NG) demand for electricity generation will increase. Estimates also suggest that NG supply will increasingly come from imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). Additional supplies of NG could come domestically from the production of synthetic natural gas (SNG) via coal gasification-methanation....

The elongated droplets and grains can break up into smaller ones. This process is driven by the interfacial free energy minimization, which gives rise to a breakup limit. We demonstrated in this work that the breakup limit can be overpassed drastically by using electric current to interfere. Electric current free energy is dependent on the microstructure configuration. The breakup causes the el...

Decentralized energy production is meant to reduce generation and distribution inefficiencies, leading to major economic and environmental benefits. This new model is meant to be supported by smart grids, electricity networks that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to them —generators, consumers, and prosumers (those that do both)— to efficiently deliver sustainable,...

Regional economies are highly dependent on electricity, thus making their power supply systems attractive terrorist targets. We estimate the largest category of economic losses from electricity outages-business interruption-in the context of a total blackout of electricity in Los Angeles. We advance the state of the art in the estimation of the two factors that strongly influence the losses: in...

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...

Demand for renewable energy in electric power systems is growing as fast. Reasons, including the desire of countries to increase production capacity of wind power are the great advantages of this method production of electrical energy. Because wind energy is many, renewable and clean. Refer ences R . Billinton, R. N. Allan ,”Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems”, 2nd Edition, Plenum Pr...

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

While most households around the world have access to electricity, number of hours per day when grid supplies them with adequate voltage can be low. Improving reliability electricity is crucial make progress on energy poverty but measuring and monitoring it difficult, especially in lower-income countries where official data sparse. We develop a transparent method using only easily accessible tr...