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Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Computational parametric analysis of the design of cross-flow turbines under constraints

François Avellan, Sebastián Camilo Leguizamón Sarmiento

The cross-flow turbine is an attractive technology for small-scale hydropower generation thanks to its low capital cost and relatively high efficiency even under partial discharge operating conditions. It has been proposed that this kind of turbine can be ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

SCCER JA-RED - A list of possible ancillary services for enhanced grid operation and implementation of the most effective ones at the RE demo site - Deliverable 1.2.3

Luc Girardin, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Luise Middelhauve

There is a need by distribution system operators and power suppliers to propose ancillary services to enhanced grid operation allowing the optimal deployment of photovoltaic panels, cogeneration technologies and distributed storage. This deliverable theref ...

2020

Aspects of the energy transition and their effects on power systems

Laurent Vincent Pagnier

Most European countries are committed to an energy transition which consists in the substitution of conventional CO2 emitting energy sources by new renewable energy sources (RES), in particular wind and solar power. As opposed to conventional energy source ...

EPFL2019

Status of the European Union Project FASTGRID

Frédéric Sirois, Bertrand Dutoit, Mathias Noe

High voltage direct current super-grids are one attractive solution for the transmission of bulk power of renewable electricity over long distances. Their protection is still an issue and superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL) offer attractive pers ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

White paper on DC technologies for Switzerland’s electricity transmission and distribution

Mario Paolone, Drazen Dujic, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi, Stefan Milovanovic, Alexandre François Christe, Milan Utvic

Existing AC power systems, established more than a century ago, are increasingly challenged by DC technologies, enabled by significant advancements in the power electronics and related scientific fields. Three major application areas for DC transmission ar ...

Work Package 3 of the SCCER-FURIES2019

Active façades : life cycle environmental impacts and savings of photovoltaic power plants integrated into the building envelope

Gianluca Cattaneo, Angela Clua Longas

Aim and approach used Increased energy supply from photovoltaics is a main priority in the “Energy Strategy 2050”. Within the joint research project "Next generation photovoltaics" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, we analysed different o ...

2019

Optimizing HVDC Grid Expansion and Control for Enhancing DC Stability

Maryam Kamgarpour, Luca Furieri

This paper analyzes the problem of the expansion of an offshore HVDC network. We assess which new HVDC link deployment ensures the highest stabilization of the DC voltage under transient conditions, in the worst-case scenario and for a given grid topology. ...

IEEE2018

A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler, Andrea Franco, Marjan Shaker, Dikolela Kalubi

Access to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy is essential for improving living standards, development and economic growth. From a healthcare perspective, energy is a critical parameter for delivering and improving healthcare services and life-savi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

DFT-based Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithms and their Integration in Advanced Phasor Measurement Units for the Real-time Monitoring of Active Distribution Networks

Paolo Romano

The increasing penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) at the low and medium-voltage levels is determining major changes in the operational procedures of distribution networks (DNs) that are evolving from passive to active power grids. Such evol ...

EPFL2016

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