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Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in smart grid and renewable energy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in differen…
Amy Lebar, Heather E. Dillon
A hybrid solar collector was designed to investigate the effects of combining two different solar collector techniques on the overall collector’s effectiveness. While most solar collectors focus only on one solar collection method, the small hybrid system use…
Talal H. Alzanki, Kandil M. Kandil, Mohammad R. Alenezi, Adel A. Ghoneim
High concentrated PV multi-junction solar cells (HCPV) likely present a favorable alternative to achieve low cost of energy. However, multi-junction solar cell has different characteristics which should be settled before they can be adapted for large scale en…
Byungtae Jang, Alidu Abubakari, Namdae Kim
Globally, traditional power systems are rapidly transforming towards the adoption of smart grid platforms. Substations which are at the center of the electric power transformation from the power plant are changing to IEC 61850 based digital substations. There…
Yahya Z. Alharthi, Mahbube K. Siddiki, Ghulam M. Chaudhry
This paper presents a study aimed at evaluating and comparing the performance of six different tracking systems for photovoltaic (PV) with diesel-battery hybrid system in arid climate of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The study considered various technical an…
Namdae Kim, Alidu Abubakari, Byungtae Jang
The digital substation system consists of an Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) which requires information for the supervision, protection, and control, as well as a client operating system for substation operation. IEC 61850 communication standard has been…
Jordy Charly Isidore Rabetanetiarimanana, Mamy Harimisa Radanielina, Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana
Rural electrification remains a great challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as access to electricity is a prerequisite to accelerate its development. The present paper reviews the measures adopted to promote access to electricity in rural and remote areas of…
Victor A. Jimenez, Adrian Will, Jorge Gotay, Sebastián Rodríguez
Currently, the electrical system in Argentina is working at its maximum capacity, decreasing the margin between the installed power and demanded consumption, and drastically reducing the service life of transformer substations due to overload (since the margi…
Byungtae Jang, Alidu Abubakari, Namdae Kim
The IEC 61850 standard stipulates the Substation Configuration Description Language (SCL) file as a means to define the substation equipment, IED function and also the communication mechanism for the substation area network. The SCL is an eXtensible Markup La…
Yassir Idris Abdalla Osman, Jinping Li, Xiaofei Zhen
House-hold PV panels are widely used; however, their performance is significantly degraded under real operating conditions. Environmental factors such as ambient temperature, wind speed, and solar irradiance has a major impact on the house-hold PV panel effic…
Nicholas Nixon Opiyo
Different droop control methods for PV-based communal grid networks (minigrids and microgrids) with different line resistances ( R ) and impedances ( X ) are modelled and simulated in MATLAB to determine the most efficient control method for a given network.…
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Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in smart grid and renewable energy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in differen… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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