Smart Energy Grid Engineering

Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. Governments around the world are investing heavily in smart energy grids to ensure optimum energy use and supply, enable better planning for outage responses and recovery, and facilitate the integration of heterogeneous technologies such as renewable energy systems, electrical vehicle networks, and smart homes around the grid.

By looking at case studies and best practices that illustrate how to implement smart energy grid infrastructures and analyze the technical details involved in tackling emerging challenges, this valuable reference considers the important engineering aspects of design and implementation, energy generation, utilization and energy conservation, intelligent control and monitoring data analysis security, and asset integrity.

Includes detailed support to integrate systems for smart grid infrastructuresFeatures global case studies outlining design components and their integration within the gridProvides examples and best practices from industry that will assist in the migration to smart grids

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Smart energy grid infrastructures and interconnected micro energy grids

Chapter 3: Optimal sizing and placement of smart-grid-enabling technologies for maximizing renewable integration

Chapter 4: Scheduling interconnected micro energy grids with multiple fuel options

Chapter 5: Safety design of resilient micro energy grids

Chapter 6: Regional transportation with smart energy grids and hybrid fuel options

Chapter 7: High-performance large microgrid

Chapter 8: Design and control of V2G

Chapter 9: Energy storage integration within interconnected micro energy grids

Chapter 10: FACTS-based high-performance AC/DC microgrids

Chapter 11: Internet of things (IoT) for smart energy systems

Chapter 12: Design and simulation issues for secure power networks as resilient smart grid infrastructure

Chapter 13: Applications of energy semantic networks

Chapter 14: Advanced optimization methods of micro energy grids

Chapter 15: Risk-based lifecycle assessment of hybrid transportation infrastructures as integrated with smart energy grids

Chapter 16: Data centers for smart energy grids

Chapter 17: End-to-end-authentication in smart grid control

Chapter 18: SCADA and smart energy grid control automation