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Title: FUNCTIONALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL COORDINATION COMPLEXES FOR USE IN SUPERCAPACITORS
Author: Zuczek, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Power resources
Description: As society begins to move away from fossil fuel consumption and the harmful effects they entail, renewable energy sources have been studied extensively over the past decades. One obstacle with renewable energy is the ability to cheaply store it du...

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: DRONE ROUTING FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS UNDER HILF EVENTS
Author: Alapati, Mahesh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: Significant damages caused by extreme weather conditions such as flood, storm, hurricanes, blizzards etc., contribute multiple and widely-spread damages to electric power transmission and distribution systems resulting in large-scale power failure...

Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLAZING ALTERNATIVES – A CASE STUDY OF TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIALS
Author: Adara, Mojisola
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: ABSTRACTThe demand on energy consumption is ever increasing, making it necessary to develop appropriate materials that can help maintain consumption levels. Windows in a building are very susceptible to heat loss and heat gain, which cause fluctua...

Title: A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: ELECTRICITY PRICE FORECASTING USING ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Author: Sardana, Bhav
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Electricity Price Forecasts have been a very important part of the energy industry for a long time. Traditionally, it was used by utilities, but after the liberalization of electricity markets around the world, they are of prime importance not onl...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: GROUPING CALENDAR VARIABLES FOR ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING
Author: Sangamwar, Saurabh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Human activities are important driving factor of electricity consumption. Human activities can be captured by calendar information. This research uses the hour of a day, days of a week, month of a year and 24 solar terms as calendar variables to c...

Title: HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS: INTEGRATION OF SMART WINDOWS IN COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Author: Shah, Rushang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Design
Description: Energy Efficiency Measures (EEM) are increasing to bridge the gap between energy supply and demand scenarios. About 70% of the electricity generated in the US is consumed by buildings alone. HVAC and lighting consume about 74% of electric load dem...

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: EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS OPTIONS FOR COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS
Author: Ramanujam, Sriram
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources, Thermodynamics
Description: Efficiency improvement of the existing coal-fired power plants has been recognized as a path of no regret. The Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule issued on August 21, 2018, requires a 2.1% to 4.5% reduction in net plant heat rate and 1.5% improvem...

Title: Development of Phasor Measurement Unit for low voltage power networks
Author: Phatak, Ashutosh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: With the increase in technological advances of the smart grid, distribution systems have undergone a great change the same as transmission systems: new technology, different types of load, demand response supporting facilities, large quantities of...

Title: DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING FOR WIND AND SOLAR POWER USING ADVANCE DATA ANALYTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES.
Author: Sharma, Vinayak
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: The world is moving towards renewable sources of energy for its energy needs and solar and wind power are one of the most promising sources of ‘clean’ energy. There is a high level of uncertainty and variability associated with these sources of en...

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: Data-Driven Strategy for Improving Energy Efficiency in Retail Banks
Author: Neely, Evan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: This thesis explores a data-driven strategy approach to curtailing HVAC energy consumption in a large retail portfolio. Energy building simulation software was utilized to predict setpoint related energy savings potential across all United States ...

Title: An approach for demand response at residential level using integrated dynamic consumer end elasticity model
Author: Patel, Shyamal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Economics
Description: Reducing the difference between on peak and off peak demand has long been recognized by utilities as an effective way of cutting the cost of producing electricity. Moreover, having prior knowledge about dynamic electricity rates gives the consumer...

Title: Clean Power Plan, Dirty Politics: An Examination of State Reactions to Climate Regulation
Author: Withrow, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Power resources
Description: While carbon emissions are widely believed to be contributing to climate change, the U.S. has done little to limit the massive amounts of carbon being introduced into the atmosphere by electricity producing power plants. The Clean Power Plan (CPP)...

Title: Analytics for Fault Detection and Energy Management in Large Retail Portfolios
Author: Raju, Suhas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Mathematics, Artificial intelligence
Description: Energy managers responsible for large real-estate portfolios typically review Energy Star scores and Energy Use Intensity (EUI) to determine which facilities to target for retrofit or audit. In the case of a large portfolio of small retail facilit...

Title: Modeling the Thermal Characteristics of Masonry Mortar Containing Recycled Materials
Author: Laney, Morgan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: As the building industry in the United States rapidly expands, the reuse of recycled demolition waste aggregates is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, the building industry is the largest consumer of natural resources. The constant u...