Renewable energy promotion has been one of the key driving forces of the world’s climate change mitigation strategy. Policymakers have argued that the transition towards a low-carbon energy system has sound economic and social reasoning, since generates economic growth and employment. This...

The exploitation of renewable energy sources through sustainable energy technologies are taking the field to decrease the pollutions' emissions into the Earth's environment. To offset the limitations of such resources, hybrid energy systems are becoming fundamental in grid-connected applications...

The intermittency of the solar radiation is the big challenger for the management of electrical SMART GRID network. So the forecasting of the solar radiation remains the crucial objective to anticipate the injection of the electrical power produced by a photovoltaic generator. In this study, we...

A linear economic model has proven to lead society into an unsustainable situation. Current policies have been promoting the transition for a circular economy across Europe. Portugal's Action Plan for Circular Economy foresees the development of regional agendas, which include the...

The current Energy Market is not yet ready for the integration of the Smart Grid context. Concepts such as Demand Response and Distributed Generation, namely renewable energy resources, are not yet included in current business models in order to the system flow properly. Therefore, the authors...

In the last decade Demand Response (DR) programs have been influencing loads' profiles of electric users who participate in these programs. The evolution of the simulations able to study them brought to the possibility of defining new models that can consider power consumption profiles for...

In an attempt to enhance the performance of a Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), case sizing optimization was performed utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique. A 2D parametric optimization process was employed to optimize a number of assigned design parameters of the...

A government plan was announced to expand the share of renewable energy to 20 percent by 2030 in Korea and to construct additional pumped hydro storage (PHS) to prepare for the uncertainty of renewable generation. However, due to the distortion of the Korean electricity market, pumped storage...

This paper investigates the numerical and experimental thermo-mechanical characterization of buildings' structure for energy efficiency. A finite element model (FEM) of a small-scaled building is carried out using mesh refining tools at thermal bridges zones. The latter is revealed towards...

In recent years, new methods concerning risk mitigation techniques in energy planning strategies have become popular. Delarue et al. introduced the integrated portfolio investment model to account for supply-demand constraints. This paper proposes a model which is suitable to the energy...