Chapter 1: Electrical power systems: Evolution from traditional configuration to distributed generation
Chapter 2: Renewable energy technologies for microgrids
Chapter 3: Control of power converters for AC microgrids
Chapter 4: Communication in microgrids
Chapter 5: Smart metering technology
Chapter 6: Secondary control for islanded microgrids
Chapter 7: Energy management in microgrids
Chapter 8: Procedures for emergency situations
Chapter 9: Stability issues in microgrids
Chapter 10: Protection schemes
Chapter 11: Design and optimal sizing of microgrids
Chapter 12: Electricity markets and their implications
Chapter 13: Microgrid demonstration projects and pilot sites
Chapter 14: Design and implementation of rural microgrids
Chapter 15: Reflections about the philosophy of technology in the emerging power systems
About the Author: - Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1987 from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a full Professor at the Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil. In 2000, he was a visitor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Cataluña, Spain.
- Prof. Dr. Miguel Castilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, since 2002. He has written 49 journal articles and more than 100 conference articles. The quality factors associated to these publications are (source Scopus): 1) total number of citations: 5896; 2) average number of citations per year during the last 10 years: 571; 3) h-index: 26. He is the editor of the book Control Circuits in Power Electronics: Practical Issues in Design and Implementation, IET, 2016.
