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  • Bromine etching of kesterite thin films: perspectives in depth defect profiling and device performance improvement 

    Tiwari, Kunal; Jiménez Arguijo, Alex; Giraldo, Sergio; Placidi, Marcel Jose; Calvo-Barrio, L; Fonoll Rubio, Robert; Izquierdo Roca, Víctor; Sánchez González, Yudania; Perez Rodriguez, Alejandro; Saucedo Silva, Edgardo Ademar; Jehl Li-Kao, Zacharie (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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    Using a controlled bromine etching on kesterite absorbers, two major results are obtained. We establish the first defect depth profiling and secondary phases depth profiling of a state of the art Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) film ...
  • Estudio de mercados de flexibilidad de la demanda y algoritmos de agregadores 

    Canals Casals, Lluc; Barbero, Mattia; Corchero García, Cristina; Igualada González, Lucía (2018)
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    La flexibilidad de la demanda implica, siempre, un desplazamiento de la misma buscando un beneficio, aunque este beneficio se pueda obtener por medios distintos: el arbitraje de precios aprovechando la fluctuación del ...
  • Overview of the regulation on aggregator agents in Europe 

    Barbero, Mattia; Igualada González, Lucía; Corchero García, Cristina (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    Demand Response (DR) mechanisms promise to increase competition in the electricity sector and grid's reliability. Balancing and ancillary services could be offered by consumers for frequency balances but a new actor is ...
  • How building and district algorithms enhance renewable energy integration in energy markets 

    Canals Casals, Lluc; Corchero García, Cristina; Ortiz, Joana; Salom, Jaume; Cardoner, David; Igualada González, Lucía; Carrillo, Rafael E.; Stauffer, Yves (2019)
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    This study shows the results of the SABINA H2020 project, which analyzes the effect of two level optimization algorithms to increase the consumption of renewable power sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. First, ...
  • Optimal energy management system for V2G chargers combined with PV and ESS in a real environment 

    Corchero García, Cristina; Farré, Jordi; Igualada González, Lucía; Pons, Xavier; Sanmartí Cardona, Manel (2019)
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    The integration of Electric Vehicles in electricity grids is very likely to pose several challenges to the electrical grid operation and expansion. The potential flexibility of the load associated to the ...
  • Modelling of solid oxide electrolizer and hydrogen leak estimation 

    Cifuentes López, Alejandro; Husar, Attila Peter; Roda Serrat, Vicente; Morales Comas, Miguel; Bernadet, Lucile; Torrell Faro, Marc; Serra, Maria (2019)
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    Solid Oxide Elecyrolizers (SOEC) are electrochemical devises that produce hydrogen from water using the energy of an electric power source. SOEC operate at high temperatures (around 800ºC) and have efficiencies around 53% ...
  • Optimal Energy Management System applied to commercial self-consumption solutions 

    Sola Saura, Alaia; Igualada González, Lucía; Corchero García, Cristina (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    IREMS, an optimization model developed to manage self-consumption solutions and overcome the limitations the commercial management functionalities present has been validated under the conditions of one of the real installations ...
  • Partitioning approach for large wind farms: active power control for optimizing power reserve 

    Siniscalchi Minna, Sara; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Bianchi, Fernando Daniel; Prada Gil, Mikel de; De Schutter, Bart (IEEE Press, 2018)
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    Nowadays, large wind farms are expected to guarantee stability of the electrical grid contributing with ancillary services, such as frequency support. To this end, wind farm controllers must set the power generation of ...
  • A multi-objective predictive control strategy for enhancing primary frequency support with wind farms 

    Siniscalchi Minna, Sara; Prada Gil, Mikel de; Bianchi, Fernando Daniel; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; De Schutter, Bart (2018)
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    Nowadays, wind power plants (WPPs) should be able to dynamically change their power output to meet the power demanded by the transmission system operators. When the wind power generation exceeds the power demand, the WPP ...
  • Configurations of model predictive control to exploit energy flexibility in building thermal loads 

    Péan, Thibaut; Salom Tormo, Jaume; Costa Castelló, Ramon (IEEE Press, 2018)
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    A model predictive control (MPC) framework is developed in the present study, with the final objective to improve the energy flexibility of building thermal loads through demand-side management. Three different configurations ...
  • A simplified model for the dynamic analysis and power generation of a floating offshore wind turbine 

    Lerch, Markus; Prada Gil, Mikel de; Molins i Borrell, Climent (EDP Sciences, 2018)
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    This paper presents a simplified model for the dynamic analysis of a floating off-shore wind turbine (FOWT), which can be suitable for early feasibility and pre-engineering studies, where the complete system has to modeled ...
  • A wind farm operational strategy for primary frequency support optimization 

    Siniscalchi Minna, Sara; Bianchi, Fernando Daniel; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Prada Gil, Mikel de (2017)
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    With the aim of distributing the total power required at the wind farm control level for each wind turbine, we proposed a multi-objective model predictive control scheme able to (i) ensure the tracking of the power demanded ...

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