This book addresses the emerging trend of smart grids in power systems. It discusses the advent of smart grids and selected technical implications; further, by combining the perspectives of researchers from Europe and South America, the book captures the status quo of and approaches to smart grids in a wide range of countries. It describes the basic concepts, enabling readers to understand the theoretical aspects behind smart grid formation, while also examining current challenges and philosophical discussions.
Like the industrial revolution and the birth of the Internet, smart grids are certain to change the way people use electricity. In this regard, a new term – the “prosumer” – is used to describe consumers who may sometimes also be energy producers. This is particularly appealing if we bear in mind that most of the distributed power generation in smart grids does not involve carbon emissions.
At first glance, the option of generating their own power couldmove consumers to leave their current energy provider. Yet the authors argue that doing so is not a wise choice: utilities will play a central role in this new scenario and should not be ignored.
Spis treści
Chapter 1. Electrical Power Systems: Evolution from Traditional Configuration to Distributed Generation and Microgrids.- Chapter 2. Renewable Energy Technologies for Microgrids.- Chapter 3. Smart Metering Technology.- Chapter 4. Control of Power Converters in AC Microgrids.- Chapter 5. Secondary control for islanded microgrids.- Chapter 6. Energy Management in Microgrids.- Chapter 7. Emerging control technologies and load management in microgrids.- Chapter 8. Procedures for Emergency Situations.- Chapter 9. Power Quality and Hosting Capacity in Islanding Microgrids.- Chapter 10. Stability issues in microgrids.- Chapter 11. Microgrid Protection Schemes.- Chapter 12. Design and Optimal Sizing of Microgrids.- Chapter 13. Electricity Markets and their Implications.- Chapter 14. Microgrid Demonstration Projects and Pilot Sites.- Chapter 15. DC Microgrids.- Chapter 16. Design and Implementation of Rural Microgrids.- Chapter 17. Emerging Smart Microgrid Power Systems: Philosophical Reflections.- Chapter 18. Emerging Smart Microgrid Power Systems: Philosophical Relations.-
O autorze
– Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1987 from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a full Professor at the Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil. In 2000, he was a visitor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Cataluña, Spain. – Prof. Dr. Miguel Castilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, since 2002. He has written 49 journal articles and more than 100 conference articles. The quality factors associated to these publications are (source Scopus): 1) total number of citations: 5896; 2) average number of citations per year during the last 10 years: 571; 3) h-index: 26. He is the editor of the book
Control Circuits in Power Electronics: Practical Issues in Design and Implementation, IET, 2016.
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