The socio-technical adequacy processes of technologies, in general, and particularly, renewable energy, require paradigm changes in the way of thinking and acting in the territory. These processes are key, on post, to ...

The Generalized Renewal Process (GRP) is a probabilistic model for repairable systems that can represent the usual states of a system after a repair: as new, as old, or in a condition between new and old. It is often coupled ...

This paper proposes a multi-objective approach to model a replacement policy problem applicable to equipment with a predetermined period of use (a planning horizon), which may undergo critical and non-critical failures. ...

Energy storage systems (ESS) are a structural solution for the integration of renewable energy systems. To plan the optimal combination of ESS, storage expansion planning approaches are commonly used. They tend to focus ...

Many works have shown the potential of the Brazilian sugarcane industry as an electricity supplier. However, few studies have studied how this potential could be achieved without jeopardizing the production of sugar and ...

We establish exponential convergence estimates for the renewal theorem in terms of a uniform component of the inter-arrival distribution, of its Laplace transform which is assumed finite on a positive interval, and of the ...

The paper discusses the conflicts that arise between traditional incentive regulation, where consumers pay a fixed tariff to the distribution company for providing the wire service, and the arrival of distributed generation ...