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A definitive presentation on microgrids, examining the concepts, technical benefits and barriers, standardisation and economic details, with unique pilot site examples
This book offers broad coverage of all aspects of microgrids, including the control concepts and advanced architectures. The introduction discusses microgrids versus VPP (Virtual Power Plant) concept, barriers, enablers and the use of microgrids, also a useful roadmap for microgrid development. The first chapter outlines the technical, social, economic and environmental benefits provided by microgrids on power system operation. It examines market and regulatory settings for microgrids, control elements and control strategies of a microgrid, and provides evaluation results under standard test conditions.
Chapter Two looks at the impact of microgrids on the development of electricity infrastructure, including the impact on distribution network and transmission network development. ‘Intelligent Local Controllers’, Chapter Three, discusses inverter performance with regard to ancillary services, and presents energy storage and improvement of the voltage quality in a case study.
The book then looks at microgrids control issues, especially at decentralised control. It shows the reader how to implement the control strategies in the laboratory. Chapter Five covers microgrids design, discussing protection, fault current source and limitation, and DC microgrids. Readers will also want to know about the operation of multi-microgrids – this is covered in the next chapter with explanations of control and management architecture, coordinated voltage support and frequency control, state estimation and ancillary services markets. Technical and commercial standards are discussed in Chapter Eight. Success stories from pilot sites – eight unique case studies – are present next, before the book concludes with a look to the future. The value of distributed energy is covered here, along with the principles and criteria for developing commercial and regulatory framework for microgrids.
- Takes a logical approach to reviewing the purpose and the technical aspects of microgrids, the most innovative topic in the electric power industry today
- Includes a strong group of contributors who are both prominent in research and publication in this field, and have experience actively working on the grids
- Original research material with state-of-the-art case studies outlined in the chapter on pilot sites
- Well-organised with balanced coverage, perfect as an entry point to this very topical area of power system distribution
An excellent resource for Electric power engineers familiar with high voltage transmission systems; utility operators in microgrids; power systems researchers, academics; R&D teams and those working on demonstration projects.
