Academic Press Residential Microgrids and Rural Electrifications

Residential Microgrids and Rural Electrifications contains an overview of microgrids' architecture, load assessments, designing of microgrids for residential systems, and rural electrifications to help readers understand the fundamentals. Including many new topics in the field of home automation and the application of IoT for microgrids monitoring and control, the book includes sections on the infrastructure necessary for charging Electric Vehicles in residential systems and rural electrifications and how to estimate the energy and cost of various combinations of energy resources. Many examples and practical case studies are included to enhance and reinforce learning objective goals. Those in engineering research and technical professions will be able to perform energy and cost analyses of various combinations of energy sources by using advanced, real simulation tools. Review Reference for studying various aspects of microgrids in residential systems, and rural electrifications From the Back Cover <p><i>Residential Microgrids and Rural Electrifications</i> is an easy tool to understand reference and set of approaches for studying multiple aspects of microgrids in residential systems, and rural electrifications.</p> <p>The proposed book contains an overview of microgrids architecture, load assessments, designing of microgrids for residential systems and rural electrifications are presented to help the readers to understand the fundamentals of microgrids. Including many new topics in the field of home automation, application of IoT for microgrids monitoring and control, Electric Vehicles (EVs) charging infrastructure for microgrids in residential systems and rural electrifications, estimating the energy and cost of various combination of energy resource. Many examples and practical case studies are included to enhance and reinforce learning objective goals, stimulating and enhancing the understanding of adopting recent technologies to microgrids.</p> <p>With simulation examples of various combinations of sources using HOMER package, those in engineering research and professions will be able to perform energy and cost of various combinations of energy sources by using this advanced real simulation tools.</p> About the Author Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban received the bachelor's degree from the University of Madras, the master's degree from Pondicherry University and the Ph.D. degree University of Bologna. Currently he is working as a Faculty Member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. He has authored 300 plus scientific papers and has received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence. He is a fellow the Institution of Engineers, FIE, India, fellow the Institution of Telecommunication and Electronics Engineers, FIETE, India and fellow the Institution of Engineering and Technology, IET, UK. He serves as an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board of refereed journal, in particular, the IEEE Systems Journal, the IEEE Access Journal, the IET Power Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics, Korea, and the subject editor of the subject Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation, the subject Editor of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and the subject editor of FACTS journal, Canada. Dr. C. Sharmeela (CS) holds a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.E. in Power Systems Engineering from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 1999, 2000 & 2009 respectively. At present, she holds the post of Associate Professor in department of EEE, CEG campus, Anna University, Chennai, India. She has 20 years of teaching experience and taught various subjects to undergraduate and post graduate students. She did number of research projects and consultancy work in renewable energy, power quality & design of PQ compensators for various industries. CS talks importanc