Integrating renewable energy into mining operations: Opportunities, challenges, and enabling approaches

T Igogo, K Awuah-Offei, A Newman, T Lowder… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Mining is one of the most energy-intensive industries worldwide. It also provides a critical
source of raw materials for the manufacturing, transportation, construction, and energy …

Review of energy system flexibility measures to enable high levels of variable renewable electricity

PD Lund, J Lindgren, J Mikkola, J Salpakari - Renewable and sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper reviews different approaches, technologies, and strategies to manage large-scale
schemes of variable renewable electricity such as solar and wind power. We consider both …

The potential of demand-side management in energy-intensive industries for electricity markets in Germany

M Paulus, F Borggrefe - Applied energy, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the technical and economic potential of energy-intensive industries
to provide demand-side management (DSM) in electricity and balancing markets through …

Putting the'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence

SD Ramchurn, P Vytelingum, A Rogers… - Communications of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial
intelligence Page 1 86 communicationS of the acm | april 2012 | vol. 55 | no. 4 review …

Demand side management of industrial electricity consumption: Promoting the use of renewable energy through real-time pricing

P Finn, C Fitzpatrick - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
As the installed capacity of wind generation in Ireland continues to increase towards an
overall goal of 40% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, it is inevitable that the …

Neural network controller for active demand-side management with PV energy in the residential sector

E Matallanas, M Castillo-Cagigal, A Gutiérrez… - Applied Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we describe the development of a control system for Demand-Side
Management in the residential sector with Distributed Generation. The electrical system …

Load commitment in a smart home

M Rastegar, M Fotuhi-Firuzabad, F Aminifar - Applied Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
Although demand response (DR) potentially brings miscellaneous advantages, it is currently
faced with challenges in its implementation due to customers' difficulty in manually …

Optimal schedule of grid-connected residential PV generation systems with battery storages under time-of-use and step tariffs

S Zhang, Y Tang - Journal of Energy Storage, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, grid-connected residential PV generation systems have been greatly
encouraged in China. In a residential power system containing PV, three types of power …

Optimal energy cost and economic analysis of a residential grid-interactive solar PV system-case of eThekwini municipality in South Africa

BP Numbi, SJ Malinga - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, an optimal energy control of a 3 kW residential grid-interactive solar PV system
is presented. A typical two-bedroom household within the eThekwini municipality in the city …

Modeling and energy efficiency optimization of belt conveyors

S Zhang, X Xia - Applied energy, 2011 - Elsevier
The improvement of the energy efficiency of belt conveyor systems can be achieved at
equipment and operation levels. Specifically, variable speed control, an equipment level …