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Improving hydropower flexibility by synergizing independently managed utilities

Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Vincent Gaertner, Steve Crettenand

Increasing the flexibility of hydropower allows operators to produce at optimal time ranges, not only dependent on the demand flow but also on the price trends. However, the possibility to improve hydropower flexibility can be hindered when assets are mana ...

Hydropower&Dams, Aqua Media International2019

Technologies for Integration of Large-Scale Distributed Generation and Volatile Loads in Distribution Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Jagdish Prasad Achara

As fossil fuel reserves are limited in stock and there is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprint, distribution grids urgently need to move towards heavy use of local and distributed generation of electricity using renewable energy sources. Another p ...

2018

Integration of solar energy with industrial processes

Anna Sophia Wallerand

Solar energy offers a great potential for integration with industrial processes, which conventionally rely on fossil fuels to provide energy. The seasonal, daily, and regional dependence of solar energy alongside the scarcity of space or financial resource ...

EPFL2018

Rusty dinosaurs and the surviving species in the new energy system? Analysing urban utilities in the German and Swiss energy transition

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

After the nuclear accident in Fukushima, amongst others Germany and Switzerland decided to accelerate the sustainability transition of their energy systems not only by expanding the share of renewables actively but also by quitting nuclear power. Regarding ...

2017

Torn between international competition and municipal claims: Analysing key influence factors on municipal utilities’ business strategies in the German and Swiss energy transition

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

2017

Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Paul Liska, Fabrizio Giordano, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Joël Teuscher, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Towards optimal design of solar assisted industrial processes: Case study of a dairy

François Maréchal, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Régis Voillat

Pinch analysis is a valuable tool for industrial process integration and optimization. Based on heat cascading and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) the optimal utility system can be found, includ- ing traditional heat sources (burners, boilers) and ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments

Sophie Maire

Electricity market liberalization is altering pricing mechanisms in wholesale electricity markets, which will affect the effectiveness of climate and energy policies. Models used to simulate such policies must be responsive to pricing rules. We show how th ...

2016

Advanced methods for the evaluation of lightning incidence over large areas, wind turbine parks and tall towers

Aleksandr Smorgonskii

Lightning presents a significant danger to electrical and electronic equipment, buildings and monuments, people and animals. Although our knowledge about lightning has significantly improved over last century, the development of new composite materials and ...

EPFL2016

Producer Cooperatives: a Transaction Cost Economic Approach

This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transact ...

Verlar Raiffeisen Schweiz2016

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