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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Electric power industry"”.
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Energy modelling in the South African electric power industry
… system for the planning of the South African electricity supply industry. A power system planning process was developed with the object of ~stablishing a long-range development plan that would enable the selection and timing of individual projects. This planning process is represented by …
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Estimation of transmission losses in a changing electric power industry
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Closed-loop market dynamics for a deregulated electric power industry
The deregulation of the electric power industry in the United States has put pressure on system operators to maintain security and performance levels under increasingly uncertain market conditions. The debate over which market structure is best suited to facilitate provision of power on a …
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Business strategy for power distribution equipment manufacturer in a deregulated electric power industry
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2002.
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The risk of reform : privatisation and liberalisation in the Brazilian electric power industry
… to privatising and liberalising its electric power industry, few would have predicted that within five years the reforms would be a shambles. Like its neighbors Argentina and Chile, Brazil based its electricity reforms on the orthodox therapies of privatisation and liberalisation. The …
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Deregulation of the electric power industry : the impact of transmission on market imperfections
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Long-term economically efficient transmission systems in a restructured and deregulated electric power industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1996.
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Design of an information entity-- the InfoCo-- for the electric power industry under restructuring
… Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001
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Dynamics of the electric power industry in Japan and strategic options for electric utilities
The Japanese electric power industry is undergoing drastic reform since a devastating earthquake struck Japan on March 11, 2011. This disaster triggered a tsunami, which caused major damage to the nuclear power plants in Fukushima and led to the shutdown of all the nuclear power plants in the …
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Westinghouse PWR : the rise and fall of a dominant design in the electric power industry
In the early 1950s the electric power industry was shaken by the introduction of a new type of energy source that pledged to be the most cost-efficient way of producing electricity. Counting on the promise of huge profits -attributed to large economies of scale- governments and utilities rushed to …
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Option valuation of flexible investments : the case of environmental investments in the electric power industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1992.
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Regulatory reforms and structural changes in the electric power industry : the U.S. experience and its implication to Japan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Variability in output and reliability of broadly distributed wind farms and solar arrays as a function of the system scale
… by the current difficulties faced by the electric power industry in maintaining acceptable levels of electric grid reliability in broadly distributed wind and solar resources. This thesis presents a study on the geographic diversification of wind turbines and solar arrays to minimize the …
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Three-Phase Linear State Estimation with Phasor Measurements
… the increasing implementation of PMUs across the electric power industry, a natural expansion of state estimation techniques would be one that employed the exclusive use of PMU data. Dominion Virginia Power and the Department of Energy (DOE) are sponsoring a research project which aims to …
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Applications of load flow by hybrid computer
… was explained. An analog model of an electric power system was developed. This model included representations of transmission lines, buses, loads and generations. When the hybrid load flow was implemented, the results indicated that the algorithm was very useful in terms of speed and …
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Investment in nuclear generation in a restricted electricity market : an analysis of risks and financing options
Since the late 1970s, the US electric power industry has been undergoing major changes. The electric utility industry had mainly consisted of highly regulated, vertically integrated, local monopolies, providing customers with all electric services at rates determined by the state regulatory agency. …
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Hedging optimization algorithms for deregulated electricity markets
… in many U.S. states are to deregulate their electric power industry and markets with the desire to provide a more consumer-friendly environment than under regulation. However, deregulation also creates uncertainty and risk. It is this risk that we wish to address and contain. In this thesis, …
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Enhanced techniques to plan rural electrical networks using the Reference Electrification Model
… digital and technical advances in the electric power industry, rural electrification remains a pressing issue in the developing countries around the world. The International Energy Agency estimates that there are 1.2 billion people globally who lack access to electricity. Planning …
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Evaluating the technical innovation landscape for wind energy's competitive future : a value creation -- value capture analysis
… innovations in the wind energy sector of the electric power industry. Six technical innovations are considered for the analysis, including Grid-Scale Storage, On-Site Manufacturing Systems, Transmission Power Flow Control, Near-Term Forecasting, Long-Term Forecasting and Predictive …
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