We consider a farm of Kite Power Systems (KPS) in the field of Airborne Wind Energy (AWE), in which each kite is connected to an electric ground generator by a tether. In particular, we address the problem of selecting the best layout of such farm in a given land area such that the total...

The paper deals with the problem of operating the reliability of prosumers as part of a district heating system, taking into account overload time redundancy that they possess. This time redundancy can be both passive, caused by heat accumulating effect and use of thermal energy storages, as...

The variability and intermittency of light intensity, caused by cloud movement and weather conditions, can create fluctuation in the photovoltaic (PV) power generation. In a microgrid with a high PV penetration, these can affect severe microgrid voltage fluctuation problem. However, the battery...

This paper presents a novel optimal real-time controller for inverter-based distributed generation units in an islanded microgrid. With respect to the fact that the microgrid has a completely nonlinear structure and its dynamics is constantly changing, the linear controllers with constant and...

Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) was deployed in this paper for multi-objective thermo-economic optimization of biomass retrofit for an existing solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power plant. The existing plant consists of a field of linear Fresnel collectors (LFC), integrated...