The Power Grid: Smart, Secure, Green and Reliable

The Power Grid: Smart, Secure, Green and Reliable offers a diverse look at the traditional engineering and physics aspects of power systems, also examining the issues affecting clean power generation, power distribution, and the new security issues that could potentially affect the availability and reliability of the grid.

With truly multidisciplinary content, including failure analysis of various systems, photovoltaic, wind power, quality issues with clean power, high-voltage DC transmission, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic interference, privacy concerns, and data security, this reference is relevant to anyone interested in the broad area of the power grid.

• Discusses state-of-the-art trends and issues in power grid reliability
• Provides examples of new technologies
• Reviews basic power engineering
• Introduces data analytics for big data

Dr. D'Andrade is a Principal Engineer in Exponent's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science practice. He has a diversified set of expertise in electrical, electronic, optical engineering, microelectronic systems, communications, network protocols, software and semiconductors. He has experience in the design, FMEA and risk assessment of electrical and electronic systems.