—Policy guides decision. This paper examines policy in the Nigerian Electric Power Sector (NEPS) to cut transmission losses (TL) and improve capacity factor (CF) to 5% and 90%, respectively. A System Dynamics (SD) model ...

Nowadays, the daily conversations at summits and conferences are mainly about energy, climate change, and environmental issues. Fossil fuels are the main causes of global warming due to the release of greenhouse ...

In this paper, we applied the Wavelet Transform Coherence (WTC) and phase analysis to analyze the relationship between the daily electricity demand (DED) and weather variables such as temperature, relative humidity, wind ...

Energy demand is increasing while we are facing a depletion of fossils fuels, the main source of energy production in the world. These last years, photovoltaic (PV) system technologies are growing rapidly among alternative ...

A thermal comfort zone is sought by all living beings for their optimum life activity, production or reproduction. In hot environment, direct evaporative coolers are often used as cost-effective thermal comfort ...

Evaporative coolers are technologies highly used as a source of thermal comfort in terms of fresh air provider in areas where weather conditions are harsh and people living standard goes from medium to low earnings. This ...

The sensitivity of monocrystalline solar module towards dust accumulation and cloud cover is investigated from May to August 2015 for Niamey’s environment. Two solar modules with the same characteristics have been used ...

Providing power to rural communities, which are far from the grid and suffer from lack of energy access in Africa, especially in Benin, in a sustainable manner requires the adoption of appropriate technology. This paper ...

The energy consumption in Ghana is deteriorating due to the increase of its population, which has enormous impact on national economy. To remedy some of these issues biogas technology appears favorable to reach sustainable ...