• DocumentCode
    28914
  • Title

    Sustainable Electricity: A Look at the Green Azores Islands [Book Review]

  • Author

    Li, Fan ; Xu, Yan

  • Author_Institution
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 United States
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Sept.-Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    88
  • Lastpage
    90
  • Abstract
    The motivation of this book is to make is to make the electric energy systems of two islands??Flores and S??o Miguel in the Azores archipelago, Portugal??as green as possible without increasing the long-term service cost. Based on the study of the electrical network, energy resources, and demand characteristics of the Azores islands, especially Flores and S??o Miguel, a systematic deployment of an IT-enabled method and automation is proposed to transform their current electric energy systems into sustainable, low-cost systems.
  • Keywords
    Book reviews; Green products; Grounding; Power generation; Power grids; Power system economics; Renewable energy sources; Wind power generation; Wind turbines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7977
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPE.2014.2329171
  • Filename
    6878580