Part I. Motivation: 1. Introduction; 2. Component reliability and system availability; 3. Economics; Part II. Technologies: 4. Power electronic interfaces; 5. Power generation sources; 6. Energy storage; Part III. Integration: 7. System architecture; 8. Operation and control; 9. Grid interaction; 10. Applications; 11. Appendix.
A graduate text and professional reference covering all aspects of microgrid design and applications.
Alexis Kwasinski is an Associate Professor and R. K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. Wayne Weaver is the Dave House Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University, Houghton. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois. Robert S. Balog is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A & M University and holds a joint appointment at Texas A & M University at Qatar. He is the Director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Director of the Solar Energy Technology Testing Laboratory and Co-director of the National Science Foundation Next Generation Photovoltaics I/UCRC at Texas A & M University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois and serves on UL technical standards development committees related to photovoltaic energy systems. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an elected Member-at-Large of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and a Technical Program Chair of the 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE).
'This book brings together all the important design, operation, and
control challenges for microgrids and shows why they are vital to
the future power grid. It is a comprehensive, timely, and thorough
treatment that offers a textbook for advanced students or a
learning manual for industry practitioners seeking broad coverage
of microgrids. An excellent first book on the subject for those
engaged in emerging energy systems.' Philip Krein, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
'Looking to the future of dispersed control implemented in
localized power systems with diverse resources, architectures, and
management, this book circulates correctly around the expanding
capabilities and falling costs of power electronics. It
comprehensively lays out techniques for conducting the key
reliability, resiliency, and related economic analyses, neatly
introduces the major generation and storage technologies, and
finally tackles the challenges of system integration, control, and
interconnection.' Chris Marnay, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
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