The aim of this paper is to seek an energy option that would benefit the growing energy demands. Domestic energy demands in southern Nigeria had increased greatly due to failing power programs and seasonal migrations. The fossil fuel option is gradually fading away due to environmental pollution...

The electricity price is the sensitive signal of the supply-demand balance and some other market incidents. The analysis of the price data can provide plenty of the market information. It is helpful for the participants to understand the market and improve future strategies. However, most of the...

A microgrid contains a PV generator and energy storage system connected in a laboratory building. Power generation is scheduled to meet the load of the building to adjust optimally the generation exchange within the microgrid. In this study, the problem of decreasing the cost of energy under...

This paper briefly introduces the characteristics of Distributed Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) System, and indicates that the off-design conditions are the root cause of the performance reduction of system. An active regulation method based on system performance improvement is...

Iranian agriculture has been supported by cheap energy for decades. So the question of whether this policy had brought any real outcome in terms of sector growth and export is of high importance for policy making. This paper tries to empirically identify such relation by using time series...

The mismatch between photovoltaic generation and residential load leads to relative modest rates of self-consumption of solar electricity unless expensive storage solutions are locally available. One alternative to batteries is the aggregation of demand of different prosumers, as the collective...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between economic growth (EG) and energy consumption (EC) for the 34 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries over the period 1990-2015.Analyze the static and especially dynamic sense of relation...

There is growing concern about the decline of the ore grade in mines and the increased energy usage for processing and refining metals. In the limit, where no concentrated deposits exist, minerals must be obtained from bare rock. A method for quantitatively assessing the "free bonus" granted by...

This paper estimates the impact of renewable energy on economic growth in West African countries using panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) by employing a sample of 15 West African countries covering the 1995-2014 period. The results indicated that renewable energy consumption slows down...

The recent ban on conventional incandescent lamps for residential use led Brazilian consumers to choose from three main lighting technologies: incandescent halogen, CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamp), and LED (Light Emitting Diode). Despite the fact that their electrical performances are well known,...