While several determinants of ICT usage has been investigated in the literature, the impact of access to electricity has been so far overlooked. In this paper, we rely on countrylevel data on the penetration rates of mobile telephony, Internet and smartphones, as well as average revenue per user...

The penetration of renewable energy sources into power systems has been increasing to mitigate the concerns for the environment, global warming, and rising fuel prices. However, the variability and uncertainty of power output from renewable energy sources raise challenging issues for power...

Power systems networks are traditionally structured and engineered to effectively accommodate the effects of uncertainty and variability as regards energy demand and availability of resources. In order to transform the present carbon-intensive electricity generation system to one driven largely...

The renewable energy based smart grid present a stable power supply system with low carbon emissions. The adaptability of work in smart grid-related approaches allows microgrids to load reliably. This research proposes a self-healing method with a large smart grid in different purpose. The...

High penetration of solar PV systems will cause grid instability and requires storage and micro-grid. Pyramid solar micro-grid which consists of many solar home systems with storage was thus proposed. The reliability of solar micro-grid is an important issue. In the present study, we develop an...

Preserving the frequency stability of new important blocks in smart grids such as interconnected microgrids, is a serious challenge. Inertia can act as a significant stability/performance index for frequency regulation in the power grids. Renewable energy sources have low inertia and mostly need...

This paper proposes a novel two-stage Microgrid (MG) scheduling methodology to decide optimal location and size of MG and outputs of dispatchable and intermittent distributed generators (DGs). In the first stage, a system stability index (SSI) representing the performance of the distribution...