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# IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):C1 - 1
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s): C2
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• ### Simulation of Electromechanical Interactions of Permanent-Magnet Direct-Drive Wind Turbines Using the FAST Aeroelastic Simulator

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2 - 9
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Two detailed models of permanent-magnet direct-drive (PMDD) wind turbines with full converters are presented in this paper: one for a 10-kW turbine, and one for a 5-MW turbine. The models are verified by comparing the power curves found through simulation with field test data. Other results are also presented that show the unprecedented detail of the models. The mathematical representations includ... View full abstract»

• ### Lifetime Cost Assessment of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators for MW Level Wind Turbines

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):10 - 17
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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Wind turbines with higher power ratings are desired to reduce construction and maintenance time and increase energy yield. However, the high capital expenditure (CAPEX) at the start of the project presents a hurdle for such technology especially for gearless permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs). This paper addresses research questions associated with the method by which the energy per c... View full abstract»

• ### Synergistic Control Between Hydrogen Storage System and Offshore Wind Farm for Grid Operation

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):18 - 27
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Wind energy is achieving worldwide acceptance as the most appealing renewable resource. Due to its increasing portion of generation mix, wind farms are expected to play the role similar to the traditional power plants. Down the road toward this goal, the intermittency and uncertainty of wind are the two important factors that should be solved. Today, storage systems present a very interesting alte... View full abstract»

• ### Novel Energy Stored Single-Stage Photovoltaic Power System With Constant DC-Link Peak Voltage

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):28 - 36
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The quasi-Z source inverter (qZSI) with battery can balance the stochastic fluctuations of photovoltaic (PV) power injected to the grid/load, but its existing topology has a power limitation due to the wide range of discontinuous conduction mode during battery discharge. For an energy stored qZSI, traditional control methods cannot ensure a constant dc-link peak voltage because of battery's voltag... View full abstract»

• ### Improving Sustainability of Hybrid Energy Systems Part I: Incorporating Battery Round-Trip Efficiency and Operational Cost Factors

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):37 - 45
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Storage systems are often employed in hybrid systems alongside generation sources. In the most basic configurations, coupling generation and storage in this manner can improve combined performance. Moreover, in advanced applications, such as for microgrids, the employment of storage offers the opportunity to diversify system objectives and pursue multiple performance goals. In this paper (part I),... View full abstract»

• ### Improving Sustainability of Hybrid Energy Systems Part II: Managing Multiple Objectives With a Multiagent System

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):46 - 54
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Hybrid power systems and microgrids may employ a mixture of dispatchable (conventional) and nondispatchable (renewable) generators alongside storage. Whether in grid-connected or grid-isolated (islanded) modes of operation, these systems may face multiple competing objectives when managing diverse installed assets. Power management of hybrid energy systems, therefore, involves operational tradeoff... View full abstract»

• ### Toward a Comprehensive Model of Large-Scale DFIG-Based Wind Farms in Adequacy Assessment of Power Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):55 - 63
Cited by:  Papers (28)
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With the current focus on energy and environment, efficient integration of renewable energies, especially wind energy into power systems, is becoming essential. Furthermore, to fully capture wind potentials and to recognize the unique characteristics associated with wind energy in power systems adequacy analysis, a profound inquiry is required. In this way, this paper tries to establish a comprehe... View full abstract»

• ### Performance of Pitch and Stall Regulated Tidal Stream Turbines

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):64 - 72
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Controllers for a pitch and a stall regulated horizontal axial flow, variable-speed tidal stream turbine are developed, and a performance comparison is carried out. Below rated flow speed, both turbines are operated in variable-speed mode so that the optimum tip-speed ratio is maintained. One of the turbines has variable pitch blades, which above rated speed are pitched to feather in order to regu... View full abstract»

• ### Pyroelectric-Based Solar and Wind Energy Harvesting System

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):73 - 81
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Inherent scarcity of thermal sources with a time varying temperature profile is the reason why the pyroelectric-based energy harvesting is not as prominent as its counterpart, thermoelectric generators, in the thermal energy harvesting domain. In this paper, a practical solution for generating thermal oscillations required for sustainable pyroelectric-based energy harvesting from the solar and win... View full abstract»

• ### Residue-Based Evaluation of the Use of Wind Power Plants With Full Converter Wind Turbines for Power Oscillation Damping Control

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):82 - 89
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As wind power plants (WPPs) gradually replace the power production of the conventional generators, many aspects of the power system may be affected, in which the small signal stability is included. Additional control may be needed for wind turbine generators (WTGs) to participate in the power oscillation damping. The feasibility of implementing this control needs to be assessed. This paper studies... View full abstract»

• ### Selection and Performance-Degradation Modeling of LiMO$_{2}$/Li$_{4}$Ti$_{5}$O $_{12}$ and LiFePO $_{4}$/C Battery Cells as Suitable Energy Storage Systems for Grid Integration With Wind Power Plants: An Example for the Primary Frequency Regulation Service

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):90 - 101
Cited by:  Papers (37)
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Advances in the development of energy storage technologies are making them attractive for grid integration together with wind power plants. Thus, the new system, the virtual power plant, is able to emulate the characteristics of today's conventional power plants. However, at present, energy storage devices are expensive and proper selection of the energy storage technology that is to be grid integ... View full abstract»

• ### On Decisive Storage Parameters for Minimizing Energy Supply Costs in Multicarrier Energy Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):102 - 109
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Energy storage is one possibility to cope with increasing fluctuating renewable generation in power systems. Especially when considering a number of different energy carriers, synergies enable a reduction in energy supply costs and an increase in operational flexibility. However, the devices have to be selected carefully since installation and operation are generally costly. This paper examines th... View full abstract»

• ### Frequency Support From a Fixed-Pitch Type-2 Wind Turbine in a Diesel Hybrid Mini-Grid

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):110 - 118
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Frequency stability is an important issue in small diesel hybrid autonomous power systems (mini-grids) with high penetration of wind power. With large variations of wind power and load demand, the rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) and frequency excursions tend to increase what can lead to load shedding and tripping of renewable energy generators. The power required from the grid-forming diesel e... View full abstract»

• ### V2G Parking Lot With PV Rooftop for Capacity Enhancement of a Distribution System

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):119 - 127
Cited by:  Papers (30)
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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) units are gaining prominence and may dominate the auto-market in the near future. The V2G batteries require corporate parking lots for charging and discharging operations. The electric power capacity of an existing parking lot can be increased by the installation of photovoltaic (PV) rooftops. This paper describes mathematical models for estimating the electric power capacity... View full abstract»

• ### Operating Strategies for a GB Integrated Gas and Electricity Network Considering the Uncertainty in Wind Power Forecasts

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):128 - 138
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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In many power systems, in particular in Great Britain (GB), significant wind generation is anticipated and gas-fired generation will continue to play an important role. Gas-fired generating units act as a link between the gas and electricity networks. The variability of wind power is, therefore, transferred to the gas network by influencing the gas demand for electricity generation. Operation of a... View full abstract»

• ### Interconnection of Direct-Drive Wind Turbines Using a Series-Connected DC Grid

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):139 - 147
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This paper presents a “distributed high-voltage dc (HVDC) converter” for offshore wind farms. The proposed converter topology allows series interconnection of wind turbines with the need of neither ac transformer nor offshore platform at the sending end. Each wind turbine is equipped with a 5-MW permanent-magnet synchronous generator and an ac-dc-dc converter. The converter topology ... View full abstract»

• ### Fault Ride-Through Configuration and Transient Management Scheme for Self-Excited Induction Generator-Based Wind Turbine

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):148 - 159
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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The paper proposes a novel fault ride-through (FRT) configuration with a transient management scheme to provide dynamic grid supports for self-excited induction generator (SEIG)-based wind turbines. The new configuration is capable of supporting both shunt and series compensation modes for enhancing FRT capability and transient stability. The proposed control scheme, utilizing positive and negativ... View full abstract»

• ### Stability Enhancement of Large-Scale Integration of Wind, Solar, and Marine-Current Power Generation Fed to an SG-Based Power System Through an LCC-HVDC Link

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):160 - 170
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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The integration of the renewable-energy power sources including solar, wind, and marine current with high penetration levels can have a negative impact on system stability. This paper presents an effective control scheme using a line-commutated high-voltage direct-current (LCC-HVDC) link joined with a damping controller based on adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to achieve damp... View full abstract»

• ### Two-State Markov Model of Solar Radiation and Consideration on Storage Size

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):171 - 181
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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This paper proposes a two-state Markov model to determine the storage size of a photovoltaic system. The system is usually connected to a distribution grid, but once a large disaster occurs, it becomes the main source of supply. Daily solar radiation changes due to the weather, and it could become lower than a specified supply level for a sequence of days. Transition probabilities are determined f... View full abstract»

• ### Methodologies for Storage Size Determination for the Integration of Wind Power

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):182 - 189
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Issues of wind power integration have received much attention lately, not only among professionals but also among civilians. During this period, the biggest obstacles to the integration have been widely identified. The present paper examines two of the issues: the ramping events and the scheduling errors of wind power plants. As a possible way of easing these problems, the authors propose the use ... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Operation Strategy of Energy Storage System for Grid-Connected Wind Power Plants

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):190 - 199
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This paper proposes an adaptive optimal policy for hourly operation of an energy storage system (ESS) in a grid-connected wind power company. The purpose is to time shift wind energy to maximize the expected daily profit following uncertainties in wind generation and electricity price. A stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) framework is adopted to formulate this problem, and an objective function ... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Feature and Decision Tree-Based Classification of Power Quality Disturbances in Distributed Generation Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):200 - 208
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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Penetration of distributed generation systems in conventional power systems leads to power quality (PQ) disturbances. This paper provides an improved PQ disturbances classification, which is associated with load changes and environmental factors. Various forms of PQ disturbances, including sag, swell, notch, and harmonics, are taken into account. Several features are obtained through hyperbolic S-... View full abstract»

• ### Short-Term Operation Scheduling in Renewable-Powered Microgrids: A Duality-Based Approach

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):209 - 217
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This paper considers the operation scheduling problem in renewable-powered microgrids, which is used to determine the least-cost unit commitment (UC) and the associated dispatch, while meeting load, environmental, and system operating requirements. The intermittency nature of the renewable energy sources, as well as microgrid's capacity to operate either in parallel with, or autonomously of, the t... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy is a cross disciplinary and internationally archival journal aimed at disseminating results of research on sustainable energy that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences energy generation, transmission, distribution and delivery.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Bikash C. Pal,  Ph.D.
Imperial College