renewable energy sources (res), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. an increasing share of res and distributed generation (dg), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

To improve the controllability of the electric power output and the economic performance of a large-scale wind farm, an auxiliary energy storage system is required. This paper deals with the rule of planning reasonable energy storage power and capacity based on the historical annual mean wind speed data, the probability density of the pulsating wind power output, and the warranted firm power pr...

The technology of power electronics has practically attained maturity after four decades of dynamic evolution. In future, there will be tremendous emphasis on power electronics applications in the areas of industrial, residential, commercial, transportation, aerospace, military and electric utility systems. In the coming decades, we expect to see increasing emphasis on application-oriented R&D ...

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) can nowadays be used for many applications on the electric distribution grids. They can lead to significant technical and economic benefits such as continuity of service, improvement of power quality levels, smart load management and power flow control between different interconnected electric networks. Their applications can be implemented thanks to effici...

The use of electric vehicles as reasonable alternatives to conventional vehicles with combustion engines will become more attractive in the near future. In addition, the ongoing energy turnaround increases the required amount of regulation reserves to stabilize the power grid. In this paper, we employ an Energy Informatics approach to construct an IS-centric business model to coordinate the cha...

There is a growing need for high energy density capacitors in modern electric power supplies. The creation of nanocomposite systems based on one-dimensional nanofibers has shown great potential in achieving a high energy density since they can optimize the energy density by exploiting both the high permittivity of ceramic fillers and the high breakdown strength of the polymer matrix. In this pa...

The buildings sector in Switzerland accounts for more than 40% of the country’s overall energy demand and CO2 emissions. The predicted future weather conditions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will even reinforce this trend. Due to the foreseeable further electrification of heating and cooling demand in buildings their electric load demand will likely increas...

The paper describes research supported by the UK EPSRC on ‘Predictive Control For Energy Management In All/More Electric Vehicles With Multiple Energy Storage Units’, Project No. RA014091. It also utilises material generated via the Research and Technical Development (RTD) Project: ‘Energy optimised traction system for electric vehicle (OPTELEC)’, a project part funded by the European Commissio...