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Ling Zhou, Peng Yan, Yanjun Zhang, Honglei Lei, Shuren Hao, Yueqiang Ma and Shaoyou Sun
The optimization of the production scheme for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) in geothermal fields is crucial for enhancing heat production efficiency and prolonging the lifespan of thermal reservoirs. In this study, the 4100?4300 m granite diorite str...
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Sylvain Rodat and Richard Thonig
Solar energy is not only the most abundant energy on earth but it is also renewable. The use of this energy is expanding very rapidly mainly through photovoltaic technology. However, electricity storage remains a bottleneck in tackling solar resource var...
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Yanan Wu, He Wu, Hooi-Siang Kang and He Li
This article focuses on the optimization of the layout of a tidal current turbine array (TCTA) using the Quantum Discrete Particle Swarm (QDPS) algorithm. The objective of the optimization is to balance the maximum energy output and minimum levelized cos...
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Jesús Armando Aguilar-Jiménez, Luis Hernández-Callejo, José Alejandro Suástegui-Macías, Victor Alonso Gómez, Alfonso García-Álvaro, Raúl Maján-Navalón and Lilian Johanna Obregón
By the year 2020, 90% of the population with access to electricity worldwide was surpassed. However, the reality is very different for many countries, especially for those on the African continent that had more than 572 million people without electricity...
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Magnus Daniel Kallinger, José Ignacio Rapha, Pau Trubat Casal and José Luis Domínguez-García
Electrical grid layout optimization should consider the placements of turbines and substations and include effects such as wake losses, power losses in cables, availability of different cable types, reliability-based power losses and operational/decommis...
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Franck Schoefs, Mestapha Oumouni, Morteza Ahmadivala, Neil Luxcey, Florian Dupriez-Robin and Patrick Guerin
Offshore wind is planned to become the first source of energy by 2050. That requires installing turbines in deeper seas. It is shown that only floating wind turbines will allow dealing with this challenge while keeping a reasonable cost of energy product...
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Izleena Md Iqbar, Masdi Muhammad, Syed Ihtsham Ul-Haq Gilani and Frank Adam
In this study, the viability of harnessing wind energy for offshore oil and gas (O&G) platforms as a micro-grid solution in low wind speed regions to power O&G platforms is explored. However, wind, as a renewable energy, is known to be highly var...
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Hari Krishna Dhonju, Bikash Uprety and Wen Xiao
Energy is a fundamental need of modern society and a basis for economic and social development, and one of the major Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly SDG7. However, the UN?s SDG Report 2021 betrays millions of people living without elect...
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Jian Tan, Xuezhou Wang, Henk Polinder, Antonio Jarquin Laguna and Sape A. Miedema
A crucial part of wave energy converters (WECs) is the power take-off (PTO) mechanism, and PTO sizing has been shown to have a considerable impact on the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). However, as a dominating type of PTO system in WECs, previous resea...
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Qixiang Fan, Xin Wang, Jing Yuan, Xin Liu, Hao Hu and Peng Lin
In recent years, Offshore Wind Power (OWP) has gained prominence in China?s national energy strategy. However, the levelized cost of electricity (LCoE) of wind power must be further reduced to match the average wholesale price. The cost-cutting and reven...
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