This article reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...

Demand-side management (DSM) is becoming a universally accepted means for reducing utility-capacity needs and improving system operational performance. A technique is presented which utilizes an inverted load-duration curve (ILDC) in an efficient way to integrate utility DSM effects properly...

The proliferation of nonlinear loads has raised new concerns about the power quality in commercial buildings. Higher cost of repair, and the reduction in average life of equipment, both on the supply and demand sides, as a result of poor power quality cannot be overlooked or ignored. As lighting...

A statistical technique to characterize insolation data for use in photovoltaic (PV) systems is presented. We start by examining the frequency distribution of long-term insolation data. The histogram is generated for observed insolation for a particular hour over a month for a number of years....