International Journal of Energy Sector Management: Volume 5 Issue 4

Gaining competitive advantage through a low carbon economy: China vs Europe

Alberto Xodo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible developments of the energy sector in 2050. Special consideration is given to the evolution of the relationship between Europe…

Concept of strategic planning in electricity distribution business

Jukka Lassila, Tero Kaipia, Juha Haakana, Jarmo Partanen

The purpose of this paper is to establish a methodological framework to address key issues in electricity distribution network development. The paper defines subtasks in the…

A stochastic optimisation framework for analysing economic returns and risk distribution in the LNG business

Haydn I. Furlonge

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) business comprises a number of economic activities with inherent risks. The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated modelling approach…

Electricity industry reforms in Thailand: an analysis of productivity

Supannika Wattana, Deepak Sharma

In the early 1990s, the Thai government initiated a process of reform of the electricity industry with the argument that such reform would improve the performance of the industry…

Generator maintenance management using bio‐inspired search algorithm

S. Subramanian, R. Anandhakumar, S. Ganesan

The purpose of this paper is to solve the maintenance management problems of generating units under the reliability criterion.

Kosova's household energy efficiency and fuel supplies

Brian H. Bowen, James A. Myers, Agon Nixha

The Kosova Government is promoting energy efficiency and the purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to the efforts being made, in the form of a household survey which…

Development of fuzzy cognitive map (FCM)‐based scenarios for wind energy

Muhammad Amer, Antonie Jetter, Tugrul Daim

The purpose of this paper is to explore a very new approach of creating scenarios with fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM); specifically to create scenarios for wind energy deployment.

Operation and control of BESS using frequency‐linked pricing in real‐time market with high wind penetration

Saurabh Chanana, Ashwani Kumar

Recently, many countries have been pushing for a higher share of renewable energy sources, especially wind, in their generation mix. However, the intermittent and uncertain nature…

Special issue on EU-Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Clean Energy Co-operation

Reviewer acknowledgement

Editorial

Subhes C. Bhattacharyya, Prasanta K. Dey