New Technologies for Smart Grid Operation

By (author) Sioe T Mak

Publication date:

20 February 2015

Length of book:

109 pages

Publisher

Institute Of Physics Publishing

Dimensions:

254x178mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9780750311595

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This book is a handbook for advanced applications design and integration of new and future technologies into smart grids for researchers and engineers in academia and industry, looking to pull together disparate technologies and apply them for greater gains. The book covers smart grids as the midpoint in the generation, storage, transmission and distribution process through to database management, communication technologies, intelligent devices and synchronisation.

1 The future of power systems 2 Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and general operational and communication issues 3 Reliability principles 4 Advanced metering and demand response applications 5 Improvement of service reliability, optimization of energy delivery (assets management) 6 The use of the communication network for monitoring power quality problems 7 Different types of communication systems for utility applications 8 Comparison of technologies 9 New issues looming over the horizon facing smart grid 10Conclusions