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The paper presents an analysis of the work of electricity grid companies of Kazakhstan, as well as an analysis of technical losses of electric power in the electricity networks of Kazakhstan. Specific features of the normalization of electricity losses in Kazakhstan are provided. To resolve the existing problems in electricity networks, measures are proposed to reduce energy losses. Implementing these...
Improved electricity product development is becoming more significant to the business performance of electricity transmission companies. Despite the fact that the term improved/new product development is not new, very few studies have investigated the effect of improved electricity product development on the business performance of a public electricity transmission company, most especially in a developing...
The aim of this paper is to introduce methods of solution regarding current issues of electricity markets integration in Europe. The focus is pointed on bidding zones overview and bidding zones reconfiguration process in general, meantime the situation in central Europe will be analysed more deeply. Bidding zone can be defined as an area without internal business congestion. It means that transaction...
In all power sectors around the world the issue of balancing revenues with costs is one of the key elements for the markets' efficiency management and success. When an imbalance of these two parameters occur a financial gap will emerge as a tariff deficit and can generate deep revision of the sector regulation together with impacts on the financial performance of energy companies. AF Mercados is advising...
Island power investment is very important and intractable to the construction of island power system and development of the electricity market, for various market models, and in which power producers will have different investment strategies and different investment considerations of other power producers. This paper firstly gives an overview on the trading patterns as well as market structure in...
Nowadays IT is not a new thing that can help corporate in many areas. It is believed that IT spending has influenced to business performance and has an impact to competitive advantage of a corporate. From the theory which stated that resources owned by business organizations have close relationship to the business competitive advantage as Resource Based View (RBV) theory proposes. To confirm this...
The privatization of electric power distribution sector is the new challenge in recent decade. The privatization of electricity industry originates with purpose of improving the quality of supply, reducing the electricity price (especially in developed countries), decreasing the participation of government in this industry (especially in developing countries), and etc. According to the Principle 44...
Context-aware e-Services offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and offering e-services solutions that are adapted to their context. In this paper, using a scenario, we argue for the need for an e-services framework that supports decision-making during fault management process in electricity distribution networks. Then we discuss the...
Smart Grids are current stage in power grids evolution. This trend brings increased demands on network management and it results in the need for greater involvement of ICT technologies to power grids. In telecommunications, managing large ICT networks is traditionally handled at high level and has been described by standardized process frameworks. One of the most important process frameworks is Frameworx...
The bid-based dynamic economic load dispatch problem (BBDELD) is an optimization problem that arises in the modern context of a de-regulated national energy market, and involves matching bids from competing generating companies to the demands of consumers (regions) so as to maximize a measure of ‘social profit’. We present a novel approach to solving the BBDELD, and introduce a large-scale test-case...
The main objectives of the Smart Grid is to ensure a more resilient infrastructure, reliable power delivery, reduced carbon footprint, protection against technical and non-technical losses, and elevate customer satisfaction. This is achieved through the implementing of new technologies such as Distributed Energy Resources, Smart Metering, Bi-Directional Power Flow, Demand Side Management, Distributed...
We tend to imagine the infrastructure of electric power companies as power plants and power transmission lines. However, it has recently included services and solutions according to evolving technologies and changing governmental regulations. We have considered the services and infrastructure at an electric power company by analyzing the solutions that the electric power company would provide using...
The article presents the main trends in the Russian energy management. Demand management program based on the principles of energy conservation and the direct and indirect load control. Existing in Russia, wholesale and retail electricity markets and power are aimed at improving energy efficiency and sustainable energy consumption. The paper shows that under certain conditions for the consumer benefit...
Demand side management (DSM) has been studied to optimize the demand side of energy networks, which leads to maximization of social welfare. Methods of DSM usually require exchanges of true information used in the optimization process including private information, but in general market participants are not willing to reveal their private information. In a competitive society, each consumer's selfish...
Sustainable provision of off-grid solar electricity for Less Developed Countries (LDC) is a basic first step toward enabling a range of Beyond the Light Bulb initiatives. The off-grid electricity program of the Community Solutions Initiative (CSI), still at an early stage of development in several countries, is focused now on demonstrating sustainability and scalability. Initial steps to incubate...
The maintenance of public lightning equipments is an important and frequent activity of power utility company in Brazil. This service is usually executed using a truck with aerial bucket or a manual ladder. Despite the bucket truck being consolidated as a versatile device for several tasks across the electricity network, it still presents disadvantages such as the difficult on using it in urban areas...
In the last years, the rise in cost of fuel and the introduction of incentives from European countries led to a growth of interest for home systems that can locally produce, store and manage electric energy. In this scenario, a correct sizing, with respect to the expected consumption, of the energy production and storage devices is a key element for keeping acceptable the cost of the system. Here,...
Power is one of the most important factors in developing the economy and the standard of living of a country. Like the rest of the countries of the world, in Bangladesh the demand for power is increasing day by day. To fulfill our future power demands, Solar Home System (SHS) seems to be the only feasible form of renewable energy despite the cloudy climate in Bangladesh. The objective of the study...
In the smart grid environment, customers are offered to participate more actively in the electricity energy market with the promise of demand side management (DSM) with distributed energy resources and energy storage. By utilizing proper incentive scheme such as dynamic pricing, numerous objectives could be achieved so that it could benefit both the utility companies and consumers. In this paper,...
Electricity cost risks such as carbon tax, ECS and unavoidable tariff increases threaten the financial wellbeing of South African gold mines. Some of these proposed cost risks are however not enforced as yet. However, once approved, they could result in thousands of jobs being lost. The Eskom Integrated Demand Management (IDM) funding program for industrial projects has also been put on hold. With...
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