As the energy transition accelerates, the capacity offered by AI to sustainably integrate a huge increase in renewable energy (intermittent solar and wind energy) will be needed to ensure a stable grid and reliable. Predictions of the basic variables (wind speed and overall horizontal irradiance, as well as the resulting power output) provide a view […]
Appeared in the United States in 1983 in the State of Minnesota, net-metering (net metering or net invoicing or compensation) is a policy of self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity that allows a customer producing his own electricity to inject the surplus of its consumption in the public electricity network. Under the net-metering contract, the customer, who […]
Decentralized sources based on renewable energies are characterized by their dispersion at the level of the network, this character confers to the operators of the electricity network certain advantages of reducing technical losses on the lines of transmission and distribution of electric energy as well as the improvement of the tension plan. However, the non-dispatchability […]
Large electric power grids are large and complex structures whose role is to carry electricity, often over long distances. These networks are subject to very strict operating rules, which oblige the operators of the control centers to operate the network within its safety limits. These limits depend on the thermal resistance of the structures, but […]
The notion of consumer actor has developed thanks to the dissemination of the concept of sustainable development. It covers, in particular, aspects of social responsibility of the consumer-citizen. In addition to these social transformations which favor the emergence of a consumer actor, there are transformations in the electricity system. Indeed, the development of distributed electricity […]
Grid parity is the situation in which the price of renewable electric energy (without subsidies or government support) falls below that of the conventional energy electricity market. The cost of producing electricity are very different depending on the size of the installations: they are inversely proportional to the size of the power plant, due to […]
The deployment of smart electricity grids (SEGs or “Smart Grids”) has become essential to achieving the stated objectives in terms of energy transition. Indeed, in view of the massive integration of intermittent renewable resources, the electricity grid will become very fluctuating, and consequently, the need to ensure a balance between energy production and consumption will […]