Fundamentals of Smart Grid Systems

This book presents a comprehensive overview of smart grids, beginning with their motivation, evolution, challenges, opportunities, components, operation, management, control and protection. This book consists of nine chapters, which focuses on core topics such as, benefits and challenges of smart grid, renewable energy sources, and energy storage systems. One chapter is dedicated to Plugin Electric Vehicles and their role in grid support. This book also covers crucial topics like demand side management, monitoring, protection and power electronic converters which are included as part of effort to provide a complete operational scenario of smart grid. Each chapter ends with several challenges that instilling critical thinking.

The book can be used by undergraduate and post graduate students, faculty as a basic textbook and as a training resource for industrial engineers to gain the essential knowledge of various smart grid technologies and their fundamentals concepts in the areas of renewable energy integration, storage, e-mobility, demand side management, monitoring, operation and protection.