Control, Communication, Monitoring and Protection of Smart Grids

Smart grids enable efficient integration of rising shares of distributed and intermittent renewable power generation at various scales, and variable loads, for example from electric vehicles. This requires sophisticated communication and computation, as well as monitoring and protection from both malfunctions and malicious interference.

Control, Communication, Monitoring and Protection of Smart Grids summarises recent developments in the field. It begins by reviewing the principles of smart grids and microgrids, and their relation to renewables and power electronics. Ensuing chapters deal with renewable energy integration in smart grids, adaptive control, reinforcement learning, advanced and robust control, bi-directional virtual inertia, fault direction identification, smart grid protection, cyber-power grid monitoring, condition monitoring and health prognosis, and PV integrated EV charging in V2G/G2V operation. A final chapter brings together case studies from various countries.

This book offers a series of broad of perspectives on important questions in the field of smart grids and their control, for researchers involved with power grids, as well as those in electrical and computer engineering in the power industry.

Bidyadhar Subudhi is the Director of the National Institute of Technology Warangal and is currently on deputation from the Indian Institute of Technology Goa, where he is a Professor in the School of Electrical Sciences. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award by the IEEE Computer Society, Bioinspired Computing, in 2022. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, the IET, and the Industry Academy of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance. His research interests include systems and control, applications of power electronics and control to power systems, microgrids, and electric vehicles. He has supervised 44 PhD theses.

Pravat Kumar Ray is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. From January 2016 to June 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in research on estimation and filtering in power systems, power quality, hybrid AC/DC grids, solar irradiance forecasting and renewable integration. He received the excellent research paper award of the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy System in 2021 and the best research paper award for the Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy in 2022.

Vinod Khadkikar is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and in 2010, a visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow and a prominent lecturer for the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. His research interests include the application of power electronics in distribution systems and renewable energy resources, grid interconnection, power quality, active power filters, and electric vehicles.