Creating a Highlight Box Using tcolorbox in Latex

Sometimes, you need to summarise or highlight the most important points of a document. Preferably, it should be a centred box with a width less than the width of the page with a title. I could manage to build with tcolorbox beautifully. This is an amazing package with a great user’s manual. It is so […]

Full Inline Citation in Latex

When you write a CV or resume in , you need to list your papers in a special order in special place, at least not at the end of your document. To do so, you should have your publications in a .bib file according to bibTex format. Then, you need to use bibentry package and […]

Trimming/Clipping EPS figures in Latex

In some journal and conference format, only eps figures are accepted. The problem with eps format is that you cannot open it with typical software in Windows to trim/crop, for instance. You should use professional software packages such as Adobe Illustrator to modify the eps file. This is not something that every one of us […]

CALL FOR PAPER: special issue in the Journal of Engineering

I am going to lead a special issue of the Journal of Engineering, an open-access journal published by Hindawi. Read more about the journal in here. The acceptance rate of the journal is about 5% after rigorous peer-review process. You can see the call for paper in here or download a PDF version from here. […]

Multi-row and Multi-column table with background color in Latex

Recently, I wanted to create a table like this in where the header has partially two rows and two columns are grouped to form a larger column with a background colour: Well, I thought it should be fairly easy but I was wrong especially when you have multi-row and multi-column with a specific background colour. […]

Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage is Picking Up in the US

Electricity is relatively cheap in the states compared to many developed countries (e.g., Australia). So, it is only logical to assume that the speed of opting into renewable energy sources and particularly storage at the residential level is slow. Well, the new report compiled and published by GTM Research shows a rapid adoption of behind-the-meter […]

IEA (International Energy Agency) or ICA (International Coal Agency)

It is amazing how an agency as big and complicated as IEA makes significant errors in renewable energy forecast consistently. It happens every year and the error of their prediction gets bigger and bigger. As this article in CleanTechnica suggests, we should not jump to a conclusion. But, come on! it is very difficult not to […]

Is Electricity Expensive?

It bothers me when I hear people saying that electricity is expensive. Even in Australia which has one of the highest electricity prices in the world, I believe it is still very cheap considering all services provided by electricity. While this is the fact that less than 35% of the electricity bill is due to […]