Expanding the renewable energy sources usage in power systems will help the government meet its energy policy goals of lowering emissions, ensuring high power supply reliability, and promoting spot markets with high competitivity. However, due to the intermittent nature of these sources, this will necessitate the mitig …
This article reviews the recent trends of Oman's electricity sector before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The impacts of the pandemic on the Main Interconnected System (MIS) of Oman were analyzed using hourly load data. The analysis shows that the MIS demand declined as a result of the decrease in economic activities …
Economic dispatch is an important optimization problem in power system planning. This article presents an overview of the economic dispatch formulation, its objective, loss coefficient determination, and a case study. In the case study, different scenarios of the economic dispatch in the main interconnected system (MIS …
This paper is a review of axial-field electrical machines, which were at the origin of the invention of electrical machines such as the famous Faraday’s disk. The different configurations of the axial-field machines are presented along with their advantageous key steady state characteristics such as high efficiency and …
Photovoltaics is the process of converting solar energy into electrical energy. Any photovoltaic system invariably consists of solar cell arrays and electric power conditioners. Photovoltaic systems are reliable, quiet, safe and both environmentally benign and self-sustaining. In addition, they are cost-effective for a …