"Brazil is the world's largest producer of ethanol, a biofuel used mainly in automobiles as an additive or alternative to gasoline. In the mid-1970s the country undertook a major program to produce ethanol, and since then the industry has had both successes and failures. Although Brazil's...

This paper analyses and proposes a different role for small distributed generation (DG) systems based on renewable sources, in the context of modern electrical grids. The main purpose of the system is to act as a grid services provider and not as a stochastic and dynamically unpredictable energy...

Hybrid renewable power generation systems considering storage of energy and/or hydrogen involve considerable complexity as heterogeneous equipment need to be interconnected and activated or deactivated at different time instances. This work employs generic and flexible decision making models to...