Smart Grids : Advanced Technologies and Solutions, 2nd Edition

The 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.

• Written and updated by over 100 leading experts worldwide from industry and academia.
• Includes new chapters on data analytics, the Internet of Things, and energy market dynamics, and how they relate to smart grids and smart cities.
• Discusses the latest technologies, business drivers, benefits and market outlook of the smart grid initiative.
• Describes the role of technology developments and coordinated standards in smart grid.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Overview of the Electric Utility Industry
Chapter 2 : Smart Grid Challenges and Transformations
Chapter 3 : Smart Energy Resources – Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 : Communications Systems
Chapter 5 : Real-time Grid Management
Chapter 6 : Advanced Protection and Control for the Smart Grid
Chapter 7 : Automatic Restoration Systems and Outage Management
Chapter 8 : Volt/VAr Optimization
Chapter 9 : Monitoring and Diagnostics
Chapter 10 : Asset Management
Chapter 11 : Geospatial Technologies
Chapter 12 : Mobile Workforce Management
Chapter 13 : Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructures
Chapter 14 : Convergence of Technologies and IT/OT Integration
Chapter 15 : Data Analytics for the Smart Grid
Chapter 16 : High-Performance Computing for Advanced Smart Grid Applications
Chapter 17 : Cybersecurity for the Smart Grid
Chapter 18 : FACTS and HVDC
Chapter 19 : Microgrids
Chapter 20 : The Dynamics of Wholesale and Distributed Energy Markets
Chapter 21 : Transactive Energy
Chapter 22 : Smart Grid Standardization Work
Chapter 23 : The Smart Grid IoT
Chapter 24 : Smart Cities
Chapter 25 : Refining a Holistic View of Grid Modernization

Index