The potential shortage of natural resources, the increased demand for energy and the environmental impacts caused by the use of polluting energy sources have generated constant discussions and uncertainties about the world's ...

Transit demand and traffic conditions present relevant differences between peak and offpeak periods e.g. flows, trip lengths, congestion raising a relevant strategic design choice regarding the potential use of vehicles ...

This paper formulates and develops a peak demand control tool for electric systems within the framework of direct load control plans. This tool allows defining a load dispatch centre for central air conditioning systems ...

This paper presents the design of a smart meter (SM) with demand response (DR) capabilities. The SM design is tested in a simulation that implements an advanced measurement infrastructure (AMI), which allows a bidirectional ...

The fleet for surface transit in urban areas - number of buses and vehicle size - is usually determined by the characteristics of demand during the peak period, adjusting frequencies for other periods where those characteristics ...

This study presents a methodology to improve the operation of the power system and to deal with technical issues caused by electric vehicles (EVs) fast charging load. Fast charging stations (FCSs) are indispensable for ...

In this work we present a Distributed Demand-Side Management system based on the Artificial Immune Network algorithm. It implements an intelligent, distributed and autonomous control of the customer´s Air Conditioning ...