greenhouse gas emissions, and the low carbon fuel standard. • Electric drive technology has advanced in performance and reduced in cost, with much improvement in electric motors and power electronics and with high-performance lithium-based batteries now on the cusp of volume production. • The dramatic rise in crude oil and gasoline prices in 2008 spurred a consumer shift toward more efficient v...

A key concept in the restructuring of the electric power industry is the ability to accurately and rapidly quantify the capabilities of the transmission system. Transmission transfer capability is limited by a number of different mechanisms, including thermal, voltage, and stability constraints. This paper discusses the ATC definitions and determination guidelines approved by the North American...

The world is getting warmer, both in the atmosphere and in the oceans. The year 2005 was the warmest year in over a century, according to a recent NASA report (2006A). Data gathered from 1995 to 2006 have revealed that 11 of the past 12 years have ranked among the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record. Observations since 1961 have shown that the average ocean temperature has increased to ...

DEREGULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENTIATION IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY MAGALI DELMAS,* MICHAEL V. RUSSO and MARIA J. MONTES-SANCHO 1 Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. 2 Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. 3 Department of Business Administration, University of Ca...

Exponent Failure Analysis Associates 149 Commonwealth Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 [email protected] EPRI (formerly the Electric Power Research Institute), behalf of its member companies worldwide, has initiated a strategic research program in Human Performance (HP), designed to enhance HP management by development of approaches and tools for anticipating, monitoring, and addressing factors wit...

Concerns about atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases and operation costs are converging to increase incentives for both the electric utility and magnesium industries to rapidly locate and repair equipment leaks (Irwin, 1997). The primary culprit is sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), an invisible, non-hazardous, inert gas with near-perfect dielectric properties that is used as an insulating gas in h...

In 2018, in the Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion section of MOR 14.3, an interesting series articles was published ‘Forum on Tesla Global Automotive Industry’, where researchers discussed future dynamics global automotive sector. their work, Perkins Murmann (2018) contended that, based Tesla's success, a well-funded company could develop new electric vehicle (EV) from scratch move it into produ...

In the last years we have witnessed a growing interest, by the academic community and the automotive industry, in the multi-motor electric vehicles. The electrical nature of the propulsion is going to stress even more an increasing insertion of electronic devices in the vehicles. Furthermore, carmakers are performing research and already presented some vehicles based on the concept of X-By-Wire...

Electric vehicle, as a clean energy industry, is an important branch. Electric vehicles not only are the energy of the electric user, but also can be used as mobile and distributed energy storage unit to the grid. As a precondition of safety operation for power grid, studies of EVs’ charging load characteristics is also the theoretical basis of intelligent scheduling EVs charging orderly. This ...