Book Overview

The book is written as a primer handbook for addressing the fundamentals of smart grid. It provides the working definition, the functions, the design criteria, and the tools and techniques needed for building smart grid. The book aims to provide a working guideline in the design, analysis, and development of Smart Grid. It incorporates all the essential factors of Smart Grid appropriate for enabling the performance and capability of the power system. There are no comparable books which provide information on the “how to” of the design and analysis.

Content and Focus

The book provides a fundamental discussion on the motivation for smart grid development, the working definition, and the tools for analysis and development of the Smart Grid. Standards and requirements needed for designing new devices, systems, and products are discussed; the automation and computational techniques needed to ensure that the Smart Grid guarantees adaptability, foresight, and the capability of handling new systems and components are discussed. The interoperability of different renewable energy sources is included to ensure that there will be minimum changes in the existing legacy system.

Evaluation and Strategies

Overall, the book evaluates different options of computational intelligence, communication technology, and decision support systems to design various aspects of Smart Grid. Strategies for demonstration of Smart Grid schemes on selected problems are presented.