Engagement plays a key role for most organizations. Establishing close relationships with consumers and other stakeholders - thus promoting their loyalty and participation in the value creation process - has become an element of competitive advantage. Extant literature has focused on consumer-brands relationships in commercial contexts; yet, when it comes to non-commercial or non-profit contexts - where communi...
Engagement plays a key role for most organizations. Establishing close relationships with consumers and other stakeholders - thus promoting their loyalty and participation in the value creation process - has become an element of competitive advantage. Extant literature has focused consumer-brands relationships in commercial contexts; yet, when it comes to non-commercial or non-profit contexts - where communitie...
The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources characterized by a high degree of variability and uncertainty is a complex challenge for network operators that are obligated to ensure their connection while keeping the quality and security of supply. In order to deal with this variable behavior and forecast uncertainty, the distribution networks are equipped with flexible distributed energy resources cap...
This paper reviews flexibility products and flexibility markets, currently being discussed or designed to help in the operation of power systems under their evolving environment. This evolution is characterized by the increase of renewable generation and distributed energy resources (including distributed generation, self-consumption, demand response and electric vehicles). The paper is an attempt to review and...
<jats:p>This work is within the scope of set of consultancy studies made for Portuguese islands. It focuses on the integration of Pumped Storage Power in isolated islands. The paper starts to address several power systems circumstances about two Portuguese islands on the energetic level. For each of these islands, an independent examination of the conditions to install a reversible hydro power plant is accompli...
Large scale integration of distributed generation (DG), particularly based on variable renewable energy sources (RES), in low voltage (LV) distribution networks brings significant challenges to operation. This paper presents a new methodology for mitigating voltage problems in LV networks, in a future scenario with high integration of distributed energy resources (DER), taking advantage of these resources based...
The integration of wind power in electricity generation brings new challenges to the unit commitment problem, as a result of the random nature of the wind speed. The scheduling of thermal generation units at the day-ahead stage is usually based on wind power forecasts. Due to technical limitations of thermal units, deviations from those forecasts during intra-day operations may lead to unwanted consequences, su...