01About This Special Issue
Restructuring is recently accomplished in electricity markets. The purpose of restructuring is to improve the economic and technical efficiency. Efficiency improvement caused by creating a competitive environment and giving customers the freedom to choose the suppliers. The main requirement of customers is to provide the requested energy with desired reliability level continuously in power systems. The correct scheduling and operating of power system is required to provide a high level of reliability. Energy is the most valuable and most basic good in the electricity market. On the other, ancillary services are necessary to increase the power system reliability. Operating reserve is the most important type of ancillary services which support the network in emergency situations. In this new environment, the customers can express their bid, loads and desired reliability levels.In the recent years, power generation based on renewable energies such as wind has been important worldwide. The growth of wind power generation is fast because of its environmental and economic benefits. Wind power forecasting is naturally associated with uncertainty. So, the system operator will be faced with problems due to the uncertainties in wind power forecasting. Determination of the equivalent operating reserve is the main concern of the system operator in the power system with a large accumulation of wind power generation.
Aims and Scope:
1. Reliability analysis
2. Uncertainty in power systems
3. Ancillary services
4. Bidding Strategy
5. multi-objective optimization
6. Stochastic Programming
7. Power systems modeling
8. Demand response
9. Operating and planning of power markets
10. Smart grids
11. Micro grids
12. Renewable energies
02Meet the Guest Editors
Our distinguished editors bring deep subject-matter expertise to curate high-quality research and ensure a rigorous peer-review process.
Lead Guest Editor
Amin Shokri Gazafroudi
EE Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Guest Editor
Gheorghe LAZAROIU
Energy Generation and Use, Faculty of Power Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Guest Editor
Musa Yılmaz
Electronics and Communication Engineering, Batman University, Batman, Turkey
Guest Editor
Amin Shokri Gazafroudi
Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Guest Editor
Mostafa Yousefi Ramandi
Electrical Engineering Department, Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), Qazvin, Iran
03Published Articles
The following articles have been published in this special issue.
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Improving Electricity Access in Ghana Challenges and the Way Forward
Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2-1, March 2016Pages: 9-17Received: 7 October 2015Accepted: 2 November 2015Published: 17 December 2015Abstract: Growth in demographic requirements, increased urbanization and rural electrification coupled with an ever-increasing technological demand, and the aspiration to transform into a middle-income country have led to a fast growth in energy demand in the past two decades in Ghana. Yet there is a huge deficit in supply and this has become a major limitat... Show More -
Assessing the Impact of Load and Renewable Energies’ Uncertainty on a Hybrid System
Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2-1, March 2016Pages: 1-8Received: 30 March 2015Accepted: 31 March 2015Published: 17 December 2015Abstract: As increasing of fossil fuels and the trend of expiring, using of alternative fuels has been on the agenda of most countries particularly in the past two decades. In the meantime, the using of wind energy and solar radiation are extremely popular as sources of green energy and high-efficiency. Hence, the prediction of wind and solar power is import... Show More
