Microgrids: Architectures and Control

Microgrids are the most innovative area in the electric powerindustry today. Future microgrids could exist as energy-balancedcells within existing power distribution grids or stand-alone powernetworks within small communities.

A definitive presentation on all aspects of microgrids, thistext examines the operation of microgrids - their controlconcepts and advanced architectures including multi-microgrids. Ittakes a logical approach to overview the purpose and the technicalaspects of microgrids, discussing the social, economic andenvironmental benefits to power system operation. The book alsopresents microgrid design and control issues, including protectionand explaining how to implement centralized and decentralizedcontrol strategies.

Key features:

• original, state-of-the-art research material written byinternationally respected contributors
• unique case studies demonstrating success stories fromreal-world pilot sites from Europe, the Americas, Japan andChina
• examines market and regulatory settings for microgrids, andprovides evaluation results under standard test conditions
• a look to the future - technical solutions to maximizethe value of distributed energy along with the principles andcriteria for developing commercial and regulatory frameworks formicrogrids

Offering broad yet balanced coverage, this volume is an entrypoint to this very topical area of power delivery for electricpower engineers familiar with medium and low voltage distributionsystems, utility operators in microgrids, power systems researchersand academics. It is also a useful reference for system plannersand operators, manufacturers and network operators, governmentregulators, and postgraduate power systems students.

CONTRIBUTORS

Thomas Degner
Aris Dimeas
Alfred Engler
Nuno Gil
Asier Gil de Muro
Guillermo Jim nez-Est vez
George Kariniotakis
George Korres
Andr Madureira
Meiqin Mao
Chris Marnay
Jose Miguel Yarza
Satoshi Morozumi
Alexander Oudalov
Frank van Overbeeke
Rodrigo Palma Behnke
Joao Abel Pecas Lopes
Fernanda Resende
John Romankiewicz
Christine Schwaegerl
Nikos Soultanis
Liang Tao
Antonis Tsikalakis