Demand response programs in retail electricity markets are very popular. However, despite their success reducing average consumption, the random responsiveness of consumers to price events makes efficiency questionable achieve flexibility needed for electric systems with a large share renewable energy. This paper aims at designing demand contracts that allow act on both consumption and its vari...

Nonlinear Time History (NTH) analysis is currently the most reliable method for estimating structural behavior. Considerable computational demand and complexity of this method may cause difficulty for its routine practical application. Based on the Methodology of Endurance Time (ET) method, it can estimate the nonlinear response of structures with a much lower computational cost. In this resear...