This praxis addresses the operational dispatch and economic benefit of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) for electric distribution cooperatives in PJM. The applied research uses day-ahead market (DAM) signals and load forecast data from the PJM market to develop a battery Energy Storage...
What is political capital anyway? Academia has talked around the topic and has yet to settle on a shared definition. This study contends it is the imaginary but potent currency of politics—not one minted in a bank; but a co-constructed metric of power. That co-construction is guided by political...
After twenty years of rapidly expanding worldwide capacity and technical advance, proponents claim that offshore wind technology is commercially competitive, especially at high wind resource sites. However, the profitability of offshore projects depends on many uncertain parameters, some of them...
There is a point at the furthest reaches of the hypothetical pandemic influenza spectrum that is marked by a combination of greatest scarcity of medical resources and maximum disease severity. A severe pandemic was one of the two scenarios considered by U.S. federal government planners in their...
Continuous advances in semiconductor technologies have enabled the integration of billions of transistors in modern multicore processors. This offers software applications with abundant hardware resources to use. To realize more parallelism and higher performance, software developers are...