{"title":"India’s path towards energy independence and a clean future: Harnessing india’s renewable edge for cost-effective energy independence by 2047","authors":"Nikit Abhyankar , Priyanka Mohanty , Shruti Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, Amol Phadke","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>India’s heavy dependence on imported oil (90 %) and industrial coking coal (80 %) exposes the country to the volatility in global energy markets, impacting foreign exchange reserves & economy-wide inflation. This study assesses a pathway for India to meet its growing energy needs & achieve near-complete energy independence by 2047, focused on India’s three largest energy consuming sectors –power, transport, and industry — which collectively account for more than 80 % of energy consumption and energy-related CO2 emissions. We find that India can achieve energy independence through aggressive deployment of clean technology – renewables, electric vehicles, and green hydrogen - reducing the fossil energy imports by 90 % (or $240 billion). Clean energy deployment will inflation-proof India’s energy expenditure, create $2.5 trillion in net consumer savings, and avoid over 4 million air pollution related premature deaths by 2047. India’s electricity demand could increase nearly fivefold to over 6500 TWh/yr by 2047, while CO2 emissions from power, transport, and industrial sectors will peak in the early 2030 s before dropping to ∼800 million tons/year. Clean energy deployment will be more capital-intensive, needing a net additional investment of $1.5 trillion. Managing the clean energy transition would require significant policy support, including deployment mandates for cost-effective clean technologies, financial support for emerging technologies, long-term infrastructure planning, accelerating domestic manufacturing, and planning for a just transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50187866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electricity Price spirals now or later: An emerging market experience","authors":"Sonal Gupta , Mohammad Younus Bhat","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Time series models have been employed to identify the structural breaks and the existence of volatility based on the behavior and direction of electricity prices. The models were tuned and validated with dataset consisting of the daily spot electricity prices of 13 bid areas of the Indian exchange-traded market for ten years. The Indian exchange-traded market is a diversified market divided into 13 bid areas, each consisting of states with unique trading characteristics. Hence it is vital to conduct an in-depth analysis of each to identify the problematic areas, key reasons behind it and further tame it, which has never been done before. The results revealed that the bid areas S1 and S2 depicts negative leverage effect predominantly due to the elections and transmission constraints. Whereas rest of the areas shows positive result with less price spirals due to changes in regulation, weather and new operational plants. Insights from the research encourages power market participants to further apply forecasting techniques and prepare a price risk mitigation model and reach out at a global level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50187867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of income and price elasticities of Indian electricity demand","authors":"Nhan Dang Tran , Naresh Chandra Sahu , Pushp Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study is the first to analyse Indian electricity demand at both the aggregate and sectoral levels between 1981 and 2020. We use a novel autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) cointegration test in the presence of unknown structural breaks. While the income elasticity is close to one in the residential and industrial sectors, it is greater than one in the aggregate and commercial sectors. These results reveal that economy-wide electricity intensity rises with economic expansion in India. The price elasticity is negative and smaller than one in absolute value in the aggregate sector (−0.66), the residential sector (−0.83), and the industrial sector (−0.63), but it is statistically insignificant in the commercial sector. These estimates allow us to provide sector-specific information for policy design and implementation in the power market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50187881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User preferences among households in hydrogen electricity storage using photovoltaic panels","authors":"Takaaki Kato , Miyuki Kajitani , Yoshiaki Ushifusa","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In studies on the effective use of renewable energy sources, the use of hydrogen as a storage medium for electricity has become a prominent topic. In 2020, a web-based survey was conducted of 1000 residents in western Japan who used a photovoltaic power generation system in their homes. Of the total respondents, 30% had at least some knowledge regarding hydrogen electricity storage. As part of the survey, a choice experiment was conducted to determine the respondents’ willingness to pay for improving or changing four attributes of hydrogen electricity storage. The respondents were randomly divided into two groups: one that was given information about carbon prices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from residential energy use, and another that was not given any information. The carbon prices were calculated based on the information provided for each storage profile. Willingness to pay was calculated using mixed logit models. Including the carbon prices in the choice questions reduced the variance in the willingness to pay.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50187882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing equitable resilience of urban energy systems via strategic planning of EV charging infrastructure","authors":"Gabrielle Ebbrecht, Juntao Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper seeks to address the profound power resilience inequity in New York City by means of strategic allocation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure to support the power grid operation in challenging scenarios, such as when facing high demand or during natural disasters. First, we uncover the most disproportionately affected communities in New York by developing a metric of power resilience inequity to measure the combined impact of power failure-related factors on these areas. We employ data-driven approaches to infer the statistical relationships between communities’ power resilience index, their available EV charging infrastructure, and several other prominent socio-demographical variables. This inference yields the development of a machine learning model that can predict the reduction of power resilience inequity after deployment of the proposed resource allocation strategy. We further develop an optimization framework that jointly considers equity and efficiency to guide the optimized distribution of EV charging infrastructure across the city. A number of case studies are leveraged to demonstrate the capability of the devised approach in enhancing urban power resilience equity, yielding favorable results in marginalized communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50187884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johannes Buberger, Michael Hohenegger, Julian Estaller, Andreas Wiedenmann, Wolfgang Grupp, Wolfgang Bliemetsrieder, Manuel Kuder, A. Lesnicar, T. Weyh
{"title":"Bidirectional Charging for BEVs with Reconfigurable Battery Systems via a Grid-Parallel Proportional-Resonant Controller","authors":"Johannes Buberger, Michael Hohenegger, Julian Estaller, Andreas Wiedenmann, Wolfgang Grupp, Wolfgang Bliemetsrieder, Manuel Kuder, A. Lesnicar, T. Weyh","doi":"10.3390/electricity4020011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/electricity4020011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the potential of bidirectional charging using modular multilevel inverter-based reconfigurable battery systems via grid-parallel control. The system offers several advantages such as modularity, scalability, and fault-tolerance over conventional battery electric vehicle systems. It is designed for seamless integration with the grid, allowing bidirectional power flow and efficient energy storage. Within this study, the battery system is first simulated in Matlab/Simulink and later implemented into a hardware setup. Eventually, the simulation results and the measurements have been compared and evaluated. Thereby, startup sequences and constant current scenarios were investigated. It has been shown that the system is fully capable to charge and discharge the batteries in the grid-parallel connection, thus enabling bidirectional charging with close to full drive system power. The current total harmonic distortion complies with grid regulations and can potentially improve the grid quality. The proposed system offers significant potential for grid-integrated energy storage systems, addressing the challenges associated with renewable energy integration, grid stability, and energy management. In comparison to other publications on this topic, the proposed approach does not need additional dedicated power electronic hardware and has more degrees of freedom for current control.","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88945707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a Wide-Area Power System Stabilizer to Tolerate Multiple Permanent Communication Failures","authors":"M. E. Bento","doi":"10.3390/electricity4020010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/electricity4020010","url":null,"abstract":"Wide-Area Power System Stabilizers (WAPSSs) are damping controllers used in power systems that employ data from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). WAPSSs are capable of providing high damping rates for the low-frequency oscillation modes, especially the inter-area modes. Oscillation modes can destabilize power systems if they are not correctly identified and adequately damped. However, WAPSS communication channels may be subject to failures or cyber-attacks that affect their proper operation and may even cause system instability. This research proposes a method based on an optimization model for the design of a WAPSS robust to multiple permanent communication failures. The results of applications of the proposed method in the IEEE 68-bus system show the ability of the WAPSS design to be robust to a possible number of permanent communication failures. Above this value, the combinations of failures and processing time are high and they make it difficult to obtain high damping rates for the closed-loop control system. The application and comparison of different optimization techniques are valid and showed a superior performance of the Grey Wolf Optimizer in solving the optimization problem.","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81503520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walk the line: The paradoxical complexities of US/Canada energy trade","authors":"Laura T.W. Olive","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The United States and Canada are the world’s greatest trading partners and energy comprises a major portion of that trade. As North America transitions to cleaner energy, the relationship that started with oil and gas pipelines in the 1950s becomes even more critical with transmission lines carrying electricity produced by renewable resources. The infrastructure links between the two countries result from a complicated story of national politics, unusual US federal permitting legislation, and special interest groups. Three case studies illustrate the impacts of those drivers of energy infrastructure routes and provide useful context for potential future disputes as North America transitions to clean energy resources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50185972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are regulations enough to expand industrial demand response? A study of the impacts of policy on industrial demand response in the United States","authors":"Blake W. Billings , Kody M. Powell","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As resource mixes in the United States change, a need emerges for techniques like demand response to enhance grid reliability and utilize renewable energy sources more efficiently. Demand response in the industrial sector has lagged behind the residential and commercial sectors but has underutilized potential to benefit the grid. This work surveys U.S. Federal policy from the last twenty years to analyze the mandates and effects on industrial demand response. Policies involving industrial demand response have been vague and abstract when considering the unique energy challenges the industrial sector faces. Future policy concerning demand response should offer specific directives and tools to help industrial facilities and end-users integrate demand response techniques into their processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50185974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tipping the scale: Why utility-scale solar avoids a solar rebound and what it means for U.S. solar policy","authors":"Matthew E. Oliver","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adoption of residential rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems is increasingly widespread. However, empirical evidence shows that households who adopt rooftop PV increase total electricity consumption, a response known as the ‘solar rebound effect’ (SRE). The SRE implies that rooftop PV generation displaces conventional, grid-supplied electricity—still overwhelmingly generated by fossil fuel combustion—on a less than one-for-one basis. This article argues that utility-scale solar avoids a SRE because the SRE emerges as a household’s response to the <em>self-generation</em> of electricity by its rooftop PV system, which changes its electricity consumption incentives in ways that utility-scale solar does not. By avoiding a SRE, utility-scale solar allows the carbon reduction potential of increased PV generation capacity to be more fully realized, which has important implications for U.S. solar policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50185975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}