Introduction Electricity is, nowadays, one of the most basic utilities, connected with all the parts of modern life. Major sectors such as the industry, health and transportations rely heavily on the constant and uninterrupted electrical energy supply, and the overall prosperity of a society is highly influenced by its access to reliable and affordable electricity.…
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Juggling batteries in the face of uncertainty
In this post, I discuss a toy problem that has recently been the focus of a number of studies. I will show how this problem has practical relevance and sits at the core of the energy transition - and how we might go about solving this problem. Assume that you are faced with a shortage…
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Where Communication meet Electrical Systems
The Energetic and electric sector is changing its paradigm, making necessary to adapt the industrial sector to such new model. This change is led by the irruption of the renewable energies, Energy storage, the integration of technologies of information and communication (TIC) and internet, which has provoked the evolution of the classic distribution grid to…
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Distributed Day-Ahead scheduling of a Local Energy Community
A local energy community (LEC) is a set of residential or small industrial sites each acting as a prosumer, being equipped, in general, with generation units, battery energy storage (BES) units and loads. All the prosumers are connected to the same low-voltage (LV) distribution network, which is the internal network of the LEC and it…
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