Springer Latest Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies: Select Proceedings of NCRESE 2020: 760 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 760)

This book presents select proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (NCRESE 2020) and examines a range of reliable energy-efficient harvesting technologies, their applications and utilization of available alternate energy resources. The topics covered include alternate energy technologies, smart grid topologies and their relevant issues, solar thermal and bio-energy systems, electric vehicles and energy storage systems and its control issues. The book also discusses various properties and performance attributes of advance renewable energy techniques and impact on environmental sustainability. The book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the areas of energy and sustainable environment and the allied fields. From the Back Cover This book presents select proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (NCRESE 2020) and examines a range of reliable energy-efficient harvesting technologies, their applications and utilization of available alternate energy resources. The topics covered include alternate energy technologies, smart grid topologies and their relevant issues, solar thermal and bio-energy systems, electric vehicles and energy storage systems and its control issues. The book also discusses various properties and performance attributes of advance renewable energy techniques and impact on environmental sustainability. The book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the areas of energy and sustainable environment and the allied fields. About the Author Dr. Shelly Vadhera is currently working as Associate Professor in National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. She received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India; the M.Tech. degree in Power Systems; and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering both from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and is presently engaged in research activities circumscribing the guidance to postgraduate and Ph.D. students for their dissertation and thesis work, organizing the conferences/workshops/short-term training programs/short-term courses under the wide spectrum of renewable energy and power system technologies. She is one of the authors of the book on “Power Systems and Protection,” Bharat Publications (2007) and “Reference Handbook on Power, Control & Communication Systems: Recent Headways” Elixir Publications. Her book chapter entitled “Voltage Stability Assessment Techniques for Modern Power Systems” (Chapter 6), pp. 128-176 in Book "Novel Advancements in Electrical Power Planning and Performance" IGI Global (2020), surfaces the issues concerning the voltage stability and also empowers with the solutions to mitigate the problems in the domain of power systems. She has more than 100 papers to her credit in reputed journals and international conferences. Presently she holds expert talks on Solar Energy Scenario in Indian context and had delivered lectures in NITs, renowned government colleges and reputed private universities. She is a reviewer of many IEEE conferences and international journals. Along with the academic activities, she had successfully handled the key administrative posts in various capacities whereby it gives her an opportunity to keep the young generation motivated for producing the academic work/projects that can benefit the society by upgrading their condition even though if the change is incremental and not breakthrough. Her current research area focuses on renewable energy technologies, power systems, high-voltage engineering and artificial intelligence.Dr. B. S. Umre received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Power in 1983 and M.Tech. degree in 1986 from Nagpur University and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from RSTM, Nagpur University