• A Novel Direct Load Control Testbed for Smart Appliances 

      Garrido Zafra, Joaquín; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Gil-de-Castro, Aurora; Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno Moreno, Carlos Diego; Morales-Leal, Tomás (MDPI, 2019)
      The effort to continuously improve and innovate smart appliances (SA) energy management requires an experimental research and development environment which integrates widely differing tools and resources seamlessly. To ...
    • A stochastic modelling and simulation approach to heating and cooling electricity consumption in the residential sector 

      Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Santiago, Isabel; Flores Arias, José María; Bellido Outeiriño, Francisco José; Moreno-García, Isabel (Elsevier, 2018)
      Heating and cooling consumption is one of the most significant terms in the total supply, which may come to represent half of the total demand in European countries. These appliances are supplied by a wide range of sources, ...
    • Development and application of a smart grid test bench 

      Moreno-García, Isabel; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Pallarés López, Víctor; González Redondo, Miguel Jesús; Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno Moreno, Carlos Diego (Elsevier, 2017)
      The current upward trend in large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) in distribution networks has fueled interest in knowing their power quality issues (PQ), even in nearly real-time scale when possible. ...
    • First Approach to a Holistic Tool for Assessing RES Investment Feasibility 

      Flores Arias, José María; Ciabattoni, Lucio; Monteriù, Andrea; Bellido Outeiriño, Francisco José; Escribano, Antonio; Palacios García, Emilio (MDPI, 2018)
      Combining availability, viability, sustainability, technical options, and environmental impact in an energy-planning project is a difficult job itself for the today’s engineers. This becomes harder if the potential ...
    • Graphical Diagnosis of Performances in Photovoltaic Systems: A Case Study in Southern Spain 

      Santiago, Isabel; Trillo Montero, David; Luna Rodríguez, J.J.; Moreno-García, Isabel; Palacios García, Emilio (MDPI, 2017)
      The starting point of the operation and maintenance tasks in photovoltaic plants is the continuous monitoring and supervision of its components. The great amount of registered data requires a major improvement in the ...
    • Modeling human activity in Spain for different economic sectors: The potential link between occupancy and energy usage 

      Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno Muñoz, Antonio; Santiago, Isabel; Flores Arias, José María; Bellido Outeiriño, Francisco José; Moreno García, Isabel María (Elsevier, 2018)
      Stochastic models for predicting human behavior have become an essential part of the development of demand planning strategies, as well as a high-resolution base information for building simulation software. Due to the ...
    • PV Hosting Capacity Analysis and Enhancement Using High Resolution Stochastic Modeling 

      Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Santiago, Isabel; Moreno-García, Isabel; Milanés-Montero, María-Isabel (MDPI, 2017)
      Reduction of CO2 emissions is a main target in the future smart grid. This goal is boosting the installation of renewable energy resources (RES), as well as a major consumer engagement that seeks for a more efficient ...
    • Recursos multimedia bilingües para mejorar el aprendizaje en asignaturas de ingeniería 

      Gil-de-Castro, Aurora; Cañete-Carmona, Eduardo; Climent Bellido, M. de la Salud; Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Yépez, Alfonso (UCOPress, 2018)
      Estudios demuestran que la tasa de éxito de las asignaturas se fomenta si los alumnos aprecian la interdisciplinariedad entre asignaturas. Por otro lado, el uso de las nuevas tecnologías como el aprendizaje multimedia ...
    • Stochastic Modelling and Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in the Smart Grid 

      Palacios García, Emilio (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2018)
      The residential sector accounts for approximately 30% of the energy consumed in developed countries. This demand is currently covered not only by fossil fuels but also renewable energy sources that ensure a reduction in ...