International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering

Volume 5, Issue 2, March 2016

  • Assessing the Impact of Load and Renewable Energies’ Uncertainty on a Hybrid System

    Amin Shokri Gazafroudi

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2-1, March 2016
    Pages: 1-8
    Received: Mar. 30, 2015
    Accepted: Mar. 31, 2015
    Published: Dec. 17, 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Electricity Market
    Abstract: As increasing of fossil fuels and the trend of expiring, using of alternative fuels has been on the agenda of most countries particularly in the past two decades. In the meantime, the using of wind energy and solar radiation are extremely popular as sources of green energy and high-efficiency. Hence, the prediction of wind and solar power is import... Show More
  • Improving Electricity Access in Ghana Challenges and the Way Forward

    Aaron Yaw Ahali

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2-1, March 2016
    Pages: 9-17
    Received: Oct. 07, 2015
    Accepted: Nov. 02, 2015
    Published: Dec. 17, 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Electricity Market
    Abstract: Growth in demographic requirements, increased urbanization and rural electrification coupled with an ever-increasing technological demand, and the aspiration to transform into a middle-income country have led to a fast growth in energy demand in the past two decades in Ghana. Yet there is a huge deficit in supply and this has become a major limitat... Show More