Microgrids Design and Implementation

✍ Scribed by Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza, Miguel Castilla

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the emerging trend of smart grids in power systems. It discusses the advent of smart grids and selected technical implications; further, by combining the perspectives of researchers from Europe and South America, the book captures the status quo of and approaches to smart grids in a wide range of countries. It describes the basic concepts, enabling readers to understand the theoretical aspects behind smart grid formation, while also examining current challenges and philosophical discussions.

Like the industrial revolution and the birth of the Internet, smart grids are certain to change the way people use electricity. In this regard, a new term – the “prosumer” – is used to describe consumers who may sometimes also be energy producers. This is particularly appealing if we bear in mind that most of the distributed power generation in smart grids does not involve carbon emissions.

At first glance, the option of generating their own power could move consumers to leave their current energy provider. Yet the authors argue that doing so is not a wise choice: utilities will play a central role in this new scenario and should not be ignored.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Electrical Power Systems: Evolution from Traditional Configuration to Distributed Generation and Microgrids (Luiz F. N. Delboni, Diogo Marujo, Pedro P. Balestrassi, Denisson Queiroz Oliveira)....Pages 1-25
Renewable Energy Technologies for Microgrids (Marcelo G. Molina, Pedro E. Mercado)....Pages 27-67
Communication in Microgrids (Jorge Luis Sosa Avendaño, Luz Stella Moreno Martín)....Pages 69-96
Smart Metering Technology (Paulo Coelho, Mário Gomes, Carlos Moreira)....Pages 97-137
Control of Power Converters in AC Microgrids (Miguel Castilla, Luis García de Vicuña, Jaume Miret)....Pages 139-170
Secondary Control for Islanded Microgrids (Juan M. Rey, Javier Torres-Martínez, Miguel Castilla)....Pages 171-193
Energy Management in Microgrids (Pedro P. Vergara, Juan C. López, Juan M. Rey, Luiz C. P. da Silva, Marcos J. Rider)....Pages 195-216
Emerging Control Technologies and Load Management in Microgrids (P. H. Nguyen, M. M. Viyathukattuva Mohamed Ali, Francisco M. Portelinha Jr, Paulo F. Ribeiro, J. F. G. Cobben)....Pages 217-237
Procedures for Emergency Situations (Carlos Moreira, Clara Gouveia)....Pages 239-268
Power Quality and Hosting Capacity in Islanding Microgrids (Tiago Castelo, Matheus F. Zambroni de Souza, Carlos Duque, Paulo F. Ribeiro)....Pages 269-286
Stability Issues in Microgrids (Javier Solano, Juan M. Rey, Juan D. Bastidas-Rodríguez, Andrés I. Hernández)....Pages 287-310
Microgrid Protection Schemes (Mário Gomes, Paulo Coelho, Carlos Moreira)....Pages 311-336
Design and Optimal Sizing of Microgrids (Juan M. Rey, Pedro P. Vergara, Javier Solano, Gabriel Ordóñez)....Pages 337-367
Electricity Markets and Their Implications (Mário Gomes, Paulo Coelho, José Fernandes)....Pages 369-406
Microgrid Demonstration Projects and Pilot Sites (Clara Gouveia, Carlos Moreira, David Rua, João Peças Lopes)....Pages 407-445
DC MicroGrids (Filipe Perez, Gilney Damm)....Pages 447-475
Design and Implementation of Rural Microgrids (Franco Canziani, Óscar Melgarejo)....Pages 477-504
Emerging Smart Microgrid Power Systems: Philosophical Reflections (Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza, Benedito Donizeti Bonatto, Paulo F. Ribeiro)....Pages 505-528
Back Matter ....Pages 529-538

✦ Subjects

Energy; Renewable and Green Energy; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks; Natural Resource and Energy Economics; Engineering Ethics