interesting lecture

Had a lecture on power systems analysis today. It was quite interesting and gave me a few ideas of what could be done. For instance load factor (average power / peak power) could be taken into consideration when controlling a microgrid. The idea is that you want the load factor to be as close to 1 as possible, that way the fluctuations between supply and demand is reduced meaning that high cost generators, which allows peak demand to be satisfied, do not have to be used as much! This is difficult to achieve in a microgrid that contains alot of renewable generators and many loads, but this could be solved using agents. I am interested in this and will look into this area of agent based microgrid management. TODO: Print off some more papers to read, read one paper and make notes, explore load factor and load loss factor, read notes on power systems analysis, go to lecture at 12:00 (sustainable energy), read some hot air (for background knowledge).