Present and Future of Photovoltaic Solar Electricity

Ponencia Invitada presentada en el IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress

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Electricity production usíng different photovoltaic technologies working at the same conditíons , a real case

The manufacture of photovoltaic (PV) modules has greatly increased in the past few years. The classical PV module is based on crystalline silicon (e-Si) , nevertheless the so called thinfilm technology is gaining importance each year. In this research paper we present a experimental grid-connected solar plant situated in one of the buildings of the Technical University of Madrid, with two main objectives.

Analysis of the Iberian electricity forward market hedging efficiency

An assessment of the hedging performance in the Iberian Forward Electricity Market is performed. Aggregated data from the Portuguese and Spanish clearing houses for energy derivatives are considered. The hedging performance is measured through the ratio of the final open interest of a month derivatives contract divided by its accumulated cleared volume. The base load futures in the Iberian energy derivatives exchange show the lowest ratios due to good liquidity. The peak futures show bigger ratios as their reduced liquidity is produced by auctions fixed by Portuguese regulation. The base load swaps settled in the clearing house located in Spain show initially large values due to low registered volumes, as this clearing house is mainly used for short maturity (daily and weekly swaps). This hedging ratio can be a powerful oversight tool for energy regulators when accessing to all the derivatives transactions as envisaged by European regulation.

M.I.S. señor, el doctor Agustin Sales ... suplicante pone en consideracion de V.S. los titulos ... por los quales suplica à V.S. se sirva conceder al dicho el empleo vacante de Coronista de la presente ciudad i Reino ...

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M.I.S. Señor. El Dr. Agustin Sales Presbitero, Chronista de V.S. i Opositor a la Catedra vacante de Hebreo suplicante, expone a V.S. los meritos siguientes por los quales ... confia que le atenderá V.S. en la provision de ella ...

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M.I.S. El Dr. Agustin Sales ... opositor à la Prebenda de Vicario de Coro, que esta vacante en este Real Colegio de Corpus Christi, suplicante, expone à la consideracion de V.S. los meritos siguientes por los quales confia ...

En la h. consta: "Al Real Colegio de Corpus Christi : representado en sus mui Ilustres Señores Retor, y Perpetuos. El Dotor Agustin Sales, Presbitero, Chronista de Valencia. Suplicante"

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Contiene: Tabla de los capitulos, p. [7]-[9]

Modelling and forecasting fossil fuels, CO2 and electricity prices and their volatilities

In the current uncertain context that affects both the world economy and the energy sector, with the rapid increase in the prices of oil and gas and the very unstable political situation that affects some of the largest raw materials’ producers, there is a need for developing efficient and powerful quantitative tools that allow to model and forecast fossil fuel prices, CO2 emission allowances prices as well as electricity prices. This will improve decision making for all the agents involved in energy issues. Although there are papers focused on modelling fossil fuel prices, CO2 prices and electricity prices, the literature is scarce on attempts to consider all of them together. This paper focuses on both building a multivariate model for the aforementioned prices and comparing its results with those of univariate ones, in terms of prediction accuracy (univariate and multivariate models are compared for a large span of days, all in the first 4 months in 2011) as well as extracting common features in the volatilities of the prices of all these relevant magnitudes. The common features in volatility are extracted by means of a conditionally heteroskedastic dynamic factor model which allows to solve the curse of dimensionality problem that commonly arises when estimating multivariate GARCH models. Additionally, the common volatility factors obtained are useful for improving the forecasting intervals and have a nice economical interpretation. Besides, the results obtained and methodology proposed can be useful as a starting point for risk management or portfolio optimization under uncertainty in the current context of energy markets.

Dissertacion Historica I : que excluye la existencia de monges Basilios en el antiguo Venerable Santuario de el Santo Sepulcro de Valencia contra las noticias falsas ... del Dr. Agustín Sales, en el cap. IV de las Memorias del mismo Santo Sepulcro

Contiene: Dissertacion historica II: que demuystra aver cursado el Patriarca Santo Domingo los estudios de artes, y de theologia en la ciudad de Palencia ... Obispado, y escritos de Idacio Galiciano el Historico ...

Increasing the Intelligence of Virtual Sales Assistants through Knowledge Modeling Techniques

Shopping agents are web-based applications that help consumers to find appropriate products in the context of e-commerce. In this paper we argue about the utility of advanced model-based techniques that recently have been proposed in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, in order to increase the level of support provided by this type of applications. We illustrate this approach with a virtual sales assistant that dynamically configures a product according to the needs and preferences of customers.

Mixed models for short-run forecasting of electricity prices: Application for the Spanish market

Short-run forecasting of electricity prices has become necessary for power generation unit schedule, since it is the basis of every profit maximization strategy. In this article a new and very easy method to compute accurate forecasts for electricity prices using mixed models is proposed. The main idea is to develop an efficient tool for one-step-ahead forecasting in the future, combining several prediction methods for which forecasting performance has been checked and compared for a span of several years. Also as a novelty, the 24 hourly time series has been modelled separately, instead of the complete time series of the prices. This allows one to take advantage of the homogeneity of these 24 time series. The purpose of this paper is to select the model that leads to smaller prediction errors and to obtain the appropriate length of time to use for forecasting. These results have been obtained by means of a computational experiment. A mixed model which combines the advantages of the two new models discussed is proposed. Some numerical results for the Spanish market are shown, but this new methodology can be applied to other electricity markets as well

Electricity price forecasting accounting for renewable energies: optimal combined forecasts

Electricity price forecasting is an interesting problem for all the agents involved in electricity market operation. For instance, every profit maximisation strategy is based on the computation of accurate one-day-ahead forecasts, which is why electricity price forecasting has been a growing field of research in recent years. In addition, the increasing concern about environmental issues has led to a high penetration of renewable energies, particularly wind. In some European countries such as Spain, Germany and Denmark, renewable energy is having a deep impact on the local power markets. In this paper, we propose an optimal model from the perspective of forecasting accuracy, and it consists of a combination of several univariate and multivariate time series methods that account for the amount of energy produced with clean energies, particularly wind and hydro, which are the most relevant renewable energy sources in the Iberian Market. This market is used to illustrate the proposed methodology, as it is one of those markets in which wind power production is more relevant in terms of its percentage of the total demand, but of course our method can be applied to any other liberalised power market. As far as our contribution is concerned, first, the methodology proposed by García-Martos et al(2007 and 2012) is generalised twofold: we allow the incorporation of wind power production and hydro reservoirs, and we do not impose the restriction of using the same model for 24h. A computational experiment and a Design of Experiments (DOE) are performed for this purpose. Then, for those hours in which there are two or more models without statistically significant differences in terms of their forecasting accuracy, a combination of forecasts is proposed by weighting the best models(according to the DOE) and minimising the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The MAPE is the most popular accuracy metric for comparing electricity price forecasting models. We construct the combi nation of forecasts by solving several nonlinear optimisation problems that allow computation of the optimal weights for building the combination of forecasts. The results are obtained by a large computational experiment that entails calculating out-of-sample forecasts for every hour in every day in the period from January 2007 to Decem ber 2009. In addition, to reinforce the value of our methodology, we compare our results with those that appear in recent published works in the field. This comparison shows the superiority of our methodology in terms of forecasting accuracy.

Demonstracion legal, de los motiuos, que precisaron al ... señor D. Manuel Salvador y del Olmo ... por el ... señor Don Ascensio Sales, Obispo de Barcelona ..., a declarar y mandar publicar incursa en las censuras a la ..

Contiene: Epitome de los motiuos juridicos que assistieron a la Curia Eclesiastica de Barcelona para resistirse a firmar la contencion que le propuso la Real Audiencia a instancia de la ... abadesa de S. Pedro de las Puellas de la misma ciudad

Dissertacion Historica I : que excluye la existencia de monges Basilios en el antiguo Venerable Santuario de el Santo Sepulcro de Valencia contra las noticias falsas ... del Dr. Agustín Sales, en el Cap. IV de las Memorias del mismo Santo Sepulcro

Contiene : Dissertacion historica II: que demuestra aver cursado el Patriarca Santo Domingo los estudios de artes, y de theologia en la ciudad de Palencia ... Obispado, y escritos de Idacio Galiciano el Historico ... ; Dissertacion III : curiosa, sobre la patria, obispado, y escritos de Idacio Galiciano el Hitorico ..