Description:
The Smart Grid is a modern electricity grid allowing for distributed, renewable intermittent generation, partly owned by consumers. This requires advanced control and communication technologies in order to provide high quality power supply and secure generation, transmission and distribution. This book outlines these emerging technologies.
Brief description:
S.M. Muyeen is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He was the co-founder of the Renewable Energy Lab at The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE and faculty lab coordinator for Energy systems, Control & Optimization (ESCO) Lab of the Petroleum Institute Research Centre (PIRC). His research interests include power system stability and control, electrical machines, energy storage system, renewable energy and smart grids. He has published about 150 scientific articles on these topics, and he has authored, edited, or co-edited several related books. Dr. Muyeen serves as Editor and Associate Editor for several Journals and Letters from IEEE, IET, and other publishers.