Description:
The new edition describes the impetus for change in the electric utility industry and the latest challenges, technologies, business drivers, benefits, and market outlook of the smart grid initiative. It identifies the technical framework of smart solutions and discusses the role of technology developments and coordinated standards in smart grid.
Review Quotes:
"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