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
Link To Document :
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