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Contribution of Model Predictive Control in the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources within the Built Environment

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources has renders the power network operator task of balancing electricity generation and consumption increasingly challenging. Aside from heavily investing in additional storage capacities, an interesting soluti ...

2018

Renovation of hydraulic power plant: how to select the best technical options?

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Christian Landry, Loïc Andolfatto, Joao Gomes Pereira Junior

With the Energy Strategy 2050, Switzerland wishes to focus on balanced utilization of hydropower potentials and new renewable energy sources to cope with nuclear energy phasing out. Integration of large amounts of new renewable energies such as wind and so ...

2018

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A paradigm change in energy system design tools, energy market, and energy policy is required to attain the target levels in renewable energy integration and in minimizing pollutant emissions in power generation. Integrating non-dispatchable renewable ener ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

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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

Tapping hidden hydropower potential in Swiss Alpine catchments in the context of the planned nuclear power phase out

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Bettina Schaefli, Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos

In its Energy Strategy 2050, Switzerland is revising its energy perspectives with a strong focus on renewable sources of energy and in particular hydropower. In this context, the Swiss Government funded a number of competence centers for energy research (S ...

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Part Load Vortex Rope as a Global Unstable Mode

François Avellan, François Gallaire, Simon Pasche

Renewable energy sources (RES) have reached 23.7% of the worldwide electrical generation production in 2015. The hydraulic energy contribution amounts to 16.6% and comes mainly form large-scale hydropower plants, where Francis turbines represents 60% of th ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2017

Modification of hydropower storage operation to cope with climate change effects in Switzerland.

Hydropower is the main energy source in Switzerland and its development during last century followed increasing electricity consumption from households, industries, and rail transportations. Nowadays, the development of new important infrastructures is mor ...

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Potential contributions of wind power to a stable and highly renewable Swiss power supply

Michael Lehning, Annelen Kahl

Using data from two measurement networks, we analyse the following aspects of wind speeds over Switzerland to assess the possibility of high wind power penetration: spatial correlation, persistent low wind power conditions and the diurnal and seasonal wind ...

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Hydropower Design under Uncertainties

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The design of hydropower is determined by estimates and long-term forecasts. These forecasts and estimates are highly uncertain and make performance evaluation and design choices challenging. Performance evaluation of hydropower projects is affected by a n ...

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Integrating renewable energy technologies based on solar PV (SPV) and wind energy in the energy system is challenging due to time dependence of the energy potential for these energy sources. Grid integrated hybrid energy systems combining SPV panels, wind ...

Ieee2016