Any use of energy in industrial productive activities is combined with various environment impacts. Withintransportation, this fact was not only found among land transport, railways and maritime transport, but also in the air transport industry. An effective climate protection requires strategies and measures for reducing all greenhouses gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide, and must tak...

Several peak load management strategies are being widely employed in the residential sector, due to increased energy consumption and peak demand. The residential peak demand is very prominent and largely depends on the interaction between occupant’s energy consumption behaviour and appliance usage, hence the need to address end-use appliance usage based on consumer utilization pattern. This pap...

The Bornholm power system is a Danish distribution system located on the island Bornholm situated just south of Sweden. ØSTKRAFT is the distribution system operator supplying electricity to more than 28,000 customers at Bornholm. The peak load was 56 MW in 2007. The Bornholm power system is part of the Nordic interconnected power system and power market, and it has many of the characteristics o...

This paper presents electricity utilization and saving potential assessment for residential lighting demand side management program. The assessment involves combined Baseline Energy Use method and Analytic Hierarchy Process which represent technical and customer preference approaches, respectively. Residential lighting load curve and lamps’ share of ownership are estimated based on the first me...

In this paper, an electronic phase-shifting strategy has been optimized for a multi-parallel configuration of linecommutated rectifiers with a common dc-bus voltage used in motor drive application. This feature makes the performance of the system independent of the load profile and maximizes its harmonic reduction ability. In order to further reduce the generated low order harmonics, a dc-link ...

We study the design of pricing schemes for a group of consumers with smart meters (e.g., in a Greenfield area) who are connected through a gateway to a traditional electricity greed with a progressive tariff. Because the progressive tariff cannot take into account the time aspect of electricity demands, we apply it to consumers in both an individual and a group basis over a shorter time period,...

This paper presents two main results. The first result indicates that in materials with broadly distributed microscopic heterogeneities, the fracture strength distribution corresponding to the peak load of the material response does not follow the commonly used Weibull and (modified) Gumbel distributions. Instead, a lognormal distribution describes more adequately the fracture strengths corresp...

Article history: Received 16 October 2015 Received in revised form 19 April 2016 Accepted 15 June 2016 Available online xxxx This paper assesses the feasibility of determining key household characteristics based on temporal loadprofiles of household electricity demand. It is known that household characteristics, behaviours and routines drive a number of features of household electricity loads i...

We discuss the application of an end-use load shape estimation technique to develop annual energy use intensities (EUIs) and hourly end-use load shapes (LSs) for commercial buildings in the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) service territory. The results will update inputs for the commercial sector energy and peak demand forecasting models used by PG&E and the California Energy Commission...