monday morning

This week I shall be focusing on a lot of reading, surprise surprise! I was given another book to read by my supervisor Gopal called Perfect Power which details "how the microgrid revolution will unleash cleaner greener, and more abundant energy". TODO: Finish reading the current paper, and read another, go to the 14:00 lecture on sustainable energy, read some hot air, look at notes on conventional generation techniques.

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).

the start of the week

Tried to go to the conventional generation technologies lecture today at 9am but the lecture was full and there were no chairs. Sorted out my ID card and now in the office getting ready to read a bunch of stuff. TODO : Read some more hot air, Read one paper and make notes, Go to the lecture at 14:00. Over the weekend I have been thinking about what sort of area of smart grid I want to look at. I definitely want to look at integration of microgenerators in a microgrid environment. I need to find the papers that I read for my 4th year research project and make notes on them.

lectures

I have a couple of lectures today, one was at 9:00 (power systems) and the other is at 12:00 (sustainable energy). Both should provide a good background knowledge to the area of Smart grids and energy. TODO: Read and provide comments on two papers, go to the lecture at 12, read some more of hot air, hand in demonstrator form and hopefully set up the new pc.