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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Electricity price"”.
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Electricity Price Forecasting Using a Convolutional Neural Network
… methods have been used to forecast real-time electricity prices in various regions around the world. The problem is difficult because of market volatility affected by a wide range of exogenous variables from weather to natural gas prices, and accurate price forecasting could help both …
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The economic impact of electricity price increases on the potato industry in South Africa
… Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announced that electricity tariffs would increase at an average rate of 25 percent per year over a three year period (Njobeni, 2010). This raised fears within the economy and specifically within the agricultural sector that these increases would negatively impact …
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Modelling electricity price risk for the valuation of power contingent claims : the case of Nord Pool
… in the international power markets has let prices to be determined by the fundamental rules of Supply and Demand, which brought a substitution from Supply Risk pre-regulation, to Price risk, thus increasing the necessity of hedging using derivatives such as futures and options and therefore …
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The effects of variable operation on RO plant performance
… can impact the optimal size of the plant. The electricity price is one factor of importance. When long periods of time are considered, other factors such as weather and seasonal water demand can influence the operation and size as well. With long-term operation, water storage is possibile. This …
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Dynamic relationships between sectoral electricity consumption, economic growth and electricity prices in South Africa
Dynamic relationships between sectoral electricity consumption, economic growth and electricity prices in South Africa The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relationship between the sectoral outputs, electricity supply and electricity price in South Africa within the endogenous growth …
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Optimal operation and design of solar-thermal energy storage systems
… maximize revenue through selling and purchasing electricity to/from the grid is presented for a thermal energy storage system. Time-variable electricity prices and electricity buy-back from the grid to re-charge the energy storage is considered. The concentrated solar power on demand (CSPonD) …
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Valuing energy storage in electricity grids : a machine learning approach
… policy or decision rules, ideally charging when electricity prices are low and discharging when prices are high. In this thesis, state-of-the-art Machine Learning methods in the field of electricity price forecasting were used to accurately predict electricity prices. An improvement on existing …
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Minimizing electricity costs with an auxiliary generator using stochastic programming
… addresses the problem of minimizing a facility's electricity costs by generating optimal responses using an auxiliary generator as the parameter of the control systems. The-goal of the thesis is to find an optimization method that can cope with the uncertainty in the building load while also …
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Engineering economic analysis of solar PV installations considering power conversion alternatives
… that the geographically linked parameters of electricity price and solar radiation by far the most influential determinants of the value of solar. It is shown that systems with expected lifetimes longer than the panel warrantee can achieve significantly higher values. Additionally, the factors …
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Implementations of electric vehicle system based on solar energy in Singapore : assessment of solar photovoltaic systems
… and tropical Singapore. Based on the market price and characteristics of CdTe modules from manufacturer First Solar Ltd, two PV systems based on an apartment model and a private house model were evaluated. The cost of electricity from a relatively large scale grid-tied PV system is found to …
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Reinforcement Learning for Energy Storage Arbitrage in the Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets with Accurate Li-Ion Battery Dynamics Model
… (MILP) model, on NYISO 2013 day-ahead electricity price data. We show that accounting for reinforcement learning results in learned policies that are comparable to the behavior of MILP-determined policies with degradation. We then present a case study that uses reinforcement learning to …
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The Role Of Repurposing Coal Plants to Thermal Energy Storage in the Context of India
… assumptions, coal plant archetypes, and electricity price scenarios. Key drivers of economic viability identified include longer remaining plant lifetime, increasing peak TES temperature, lower TES energy capacity cost, co-production of waste heat for end-uses, and increasing temporal …
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Processing factors contributing to growth and decline in the steel industry
… casting began to replace ingot casting. Iron ore price, scrap steel price and electricity price were examined as predictor variables for these technological shifts. For the furnace shift, iron ore price and scrap steel price seemed to play a role, though much smaller than the role of time. For the …
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The economics of US greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy : assessing distributional effects across households and the 50 United States using a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
… of local carbon intensity and commensurate electricity price sensitivity. However, other studies have suggested that what is most important in determining costs is the means by which revenues from a price on carbon are allocated. This is one of the first studies to analyze these questions …
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Three essays on energy and environmental economics: empirical, applied, and theoretical
… that looks that the relationship between electricity price deregulation and maintenance outages at nuclear power plants. The second chapter is an applied theory paper that investigates environmental regulation in a multiple pollutants setting. The third chapter develops a new methodology …
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Essays on electricity and matching markets
This thesis contains two chapters on the Electricity Markets and a chapter on Matching Markets. In the first chapter, I study how an energy storage affects the wholesale electricity market. The transition to a low-carbon electricity system is likely to require grid-scale energy storage to smooth …
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Challenges of the Energiewende from a policy analysis perspective
… impacts of the German nuclear phase-out on the electricity market and the security of supply? 3. How do different designs of support mechanisms for renewable energy affect the risk-distribution between society, investors in renewable energy and investors in conventional power plants? 4. What is …
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