Description
Book SynopsisThe latest edition features a new chapter on implementation and operation of an integrated smart grid with updates to multiple chapters throughout the text. New sections on Internet of things, and how they relate to smart grids and smart cities, have also been added to the book. It describes the impetus for change in the electric utility industry and discusses the business drivers, benefits, and market outlook of the smart grid initiative. The book identifies the technical framework of enabling technologies and smart solutions and describes the role of technology developments and coordinated standards in smart grid, including various initiatives and organizations helping to drive the smart grid effort. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, the text explains how to plan, integrate, implement, and operate a smart grid.
Trade Review"It is a great introduction to the Smart Grid, both knowledge and its practice."
— Xiaolin Ge, Black & Veatch, USA
"The first two chapters of this second edition provide an accurate history of how electric grid modernization has progressed in the last 10 – 15 years and lay out the current challenges and opportunities that customers, utilities, regulators, and new entrants to the electric supply and delivery industry are facing. It is helpful that economic, political, policy and business drivers for the changes have been explained."
— Tom Weaver, American Electric Power, USA
Table of ContentsOverview of the Electric Utility Industry. Smart Grid Challenges and Transformations. Smart Energy Resources: Supply and Demand. Communications Systems. Real-Time Grid Management. Advanced Protection and Control for the Smart Grid. Automatic Restoration Systems and Outage Management. Volt/VAr Optimization. Monitoring and Diagnostics. Asset Management. Geospatial Technologies. Mobile Workforce Management. Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Convergence of Technologies and IT/OT Integration. Data Analytics for the Smart Grid. High-Performance Computing for Advanced Smart Grid Applications. Cybersecurity for the Smart Grid. FACTS and HVDC. Microgrids. The Dynamics of Wholesale and Distributed Energy Markets. Transactive Energy. Smart Grid Standardization Work. The Smart Grid IoT. Smart Cities. Refining a Holistic View of Grid Modernization.
