The Battle of Minds: Low-Cost 100% Renewable Grid is Possible?

It is always good to see scientists fighting on a solution or sometimes a problem simply because it can improve the science as a whole. It happens more frequently than most of us heard or saw on a daily basis within the peer-review process of scientific papers. However, they are silent fights without any representation […]

Free Course on Electricity Market and Optimisation

Since the late 1970s that the electricity marker restructuring started, it has undergone tremendous changes in operation and control to reflect the new requirements of the electricity system. Nowadays, electricity is treated as a commodity which is traded in sophisticated and mature marketplaces on a daily basis and in real-time in many countries around the […]

GRAMM: Your Friendly, Efficient, and Powerful Visualization Toolbox in MATLAB

I have been using MATLAB for a very long time, about 14 years to be accurate. I think it became number-one programming tool in academia for many different reasons. In this post, I don’t want to talk about MATLAB, except this statement: MATLAB is a nice tool for prototyping ideas and showcasing results. However, the […]

One Way to Use our Technical Books

Well, it is already sad seeing many people (even intellectuals) to immerse themselves into their phone checking nonsense on Instagram and Facebook for hours. But, what I have seen today is a new level: using technical textbooks worth of hundreds of dollars to keep the door open. And it is happening in one of the […]

The Sadest Decision of the Century

It sadly happened. The US President Donald Trump announced their departure from the Paris Climate Change Agreement. It is deeply soaring and disturbing that a minority in the US decides about not only the country itself but for everyone else on this planet and for many generations to come. The impact of the US departure […]

Why do I prefer Demand Response over Battery Storage?

Demand Response (DR) in essence is very simple: control loads to consume intelligently according to the real-time grid requirements. Well, many people will be scared just by reading the “control loads” part. I agree that it sounds scary, but let me explain and I hope I resolve the scary part. Nobody wants to tell you, the […]