Resilient Community Microgrids

Discover how to empower your community with sustainable energy solutions with Resilient Community Microgrids, a comprehensive guide that explores the integration of innovative technologies and distributed energy resources to enhance local energy independence and resilience.

Resilient Community Microgrids emphasizes opportunities to incorporate distributed energy resources and communication networks to build a cyber-physical community microgrid system by modelling photovoltaics, energy storage units, micro-turbines, and wind energy. The microgrid proves itself as a sustainable archetype to improve the resilience and reliability of power distribution networks. High-distributed energy resources penetrate communities, unlocking the potential to build the resilience of microgrids. Neighborhoods, villages, towns, and cities can meet their local energy needs by utilizing community microgrids. Community microgrids are being considered as a possibility even in locations where a bigger grid already exists, primarily as a means of boosting local energy independence and resilience. The fundamentals of community microgrids are covered in this book, along with an outline of how to join one and the factors contributing to their rising popularity.

Novel technologies arrive with the potential to integrate with the physical microgrid to realize the next generation in cyber-physical microgrid systems, which can be used as a prototype to demonstrate and promote the development of next-generation microgrids. Resilient Community Microgrids will clarify the ways to enhance a cyber-physical system's resilience that significantly contributes to realizing innovative and sustainable development in the energy sector.

O.V. Gnana Swathika, PhD, is a professor at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. She completed her post-doctoral work in 2019 at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and is a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Her research interests include microgrid protection, power system optimization, embedded systems, and photovoltaic systems. She has edited numerous books for Scrivener Publishing.

K. Karthikeyan is the Chief Engineering Manager of Electrical Designs for Larsen & Toubro Construction, an Indian multinational Engineering Procurement Construction contracting company with over two decades of experience in electrical design. Through his work, he has immensely contributed to the building services sector in areas including airports, Information Technology Office Spaces (ITOS), tall statues, railway stations and depots, hospitals, educational institutional buildings, residential buildings, hotels, steel plants, and automobile plants in India and abroad.