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An innovative subway has been proposed using supercapacitors as energy source. In this paper, are presented different possibilities to reduce on-board stored energy in order to downsize the on-board energy storage subsystem. Special attention is paid to th ...
Power sourcing for large industrials has changed since many countries began to restructure their electric sectors. Before, energy sourcing was limited to a set of products offered by electric companies under regulation. Nowadays, deregulation of electricit ...
Environmental energy is becoming a feasible alternative for many low-power systems, such as wireless sensor nodes. Designing an environmentally powered device faces several challenges: choosing the exact type of the energy harvester, the energy storage ele ...
As our awareness of the dangers of global climate change grows, the development of new renewable energy technologies is of primary importance in the effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Rapid increases in the price of oi ...
The electric power industry in European Union is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move only highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation ap ...
In order to pave the way to a sustainable energy future based on a large share of Distributed Generation (DG), there is a clear need to prepare the European electricity system for the large-scale integration of both renewable and other distributed energy s ...
To improve peoples’ living conditions, Western African countries need to considerably reinforce their electricity supply infrastructures. Retrofitting the existing installations and constructing new generation and transmission facilities require significan ...
The intention of a single energy market in Europe is to have a sustainable, competitive, and secure supply of energy. However, the current rise in the cost of electricity supply is affecting the competitiveness of large industrial users. This has led large ...
Electricity in industrial businesses represent an important fraction of energy costs, the necessity of it use and, in the majority of the companies, the increasing of their demand plus the variable rising prices of electricity lead the industrials to look ...
In the current economic situation regarding electric generation and conservation of the environment, it is essential to develop sustainable technologies. From this point of view, hydropower is an excellent resource with a consequently high value. The syste ...
