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Title: RETAIL ENERGY FORECASTING
Author: XIE, JINGRUI
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Deregulation of the electric power industry has created both wholesale markets and retail markets. Most load forecasting studies in the literature are on the wholesale side. Minimal research efforts have been devoted to tackling the challenges on ...

Title: An Investigation Into the Torque Density Capabilities of Flux-Focusing Magnetic Gearboxes
Author: Uppalapati, Krishna Kiran
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Electromagnetism
Description: Wind and many rotary based ocean energy conversion devices rely on a mechanical gearbox to increase their speed so as to match the requirements of the electromagnetic generator. However, mechanical gearboxes have a number of disadvantages such as ...

Title: ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL FOR GRID RESILIENCY AND ENHANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION
Author: Abdelrazek, Sherif
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: This research aims to examine the potential value of Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) to different sects of the electrical power system through the various applications in which it could be utilized. The different storage technologies are reviewed in...

Title: HOW DOES RELATIVE HUMIDITY AFFECT ELECTRICITY DEMAND?
Author: Chen, Ying
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Weather is a key driving factor of electricity demand. Among all the weather variables included in load forecasting models over the past half a century, temperature is the most commonly used one. Although humidity has also been discussed in the lo...

Title: Electromagnetic and vibration energy harvesting utilizing a piezoelectric device
Author: Vo, Misa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: The main goal of this research is to design an energy harvesting device that produces enough power to supply a voltage sensor deployed on a power line. Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is one of the promising methods of powering the ...

Title: Understanding and Development of Cost-Effective Industrial Aluminum Back Surface Field (Al-BSF) Silicon Solar Cells
Author: Chen, Nian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: For the long-term strategy of gradual decarbonization of the world’s energy supply, high penetration of PV electricity is critical in the future world energy landscape. In order to achieve this, solar electricity with competitive cost to fossil fu...

Title: THERMOELECTRIC PHENOMENA FOR WASTE HEAT HARVESTING USING WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS
Author: Kucukgok, Bahadir
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: The objective of this dissertation is to advance the fundamental understanding of the role of crystal defects on thermoelectric (TE) properties of wide band-gap materials in order to enable a new class of TE material for high temperature power gen...