Deregulated Electricity Structures and Smart Grids

The goals of restructuring of the power sector are competition and operating efficiency in the power industry that result in reliable, economical, and quality power supply to consumers. This comprehensive reference text provides an in-depth insight into these topics.

discusses issues including renewable energy integration, reliability assessment, stability analysis, reactive power compensation in smart grids, and harmonic mitigation, in the context of the deregulated smart electricity market. It covers important concepts including AC and DC grid modelling, harmonics mitigation and reactive power compensation in the deregulated smart grid, and extraction of energy from renewable energy sources under the deregulated electricity market with the smart grid.

The text will be useful for graduate students and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, renewable energy, and clean technologies.

Baseem Khan (M’16) received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, India in 2008. He received his Master of Technology and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Currently, he is working as faculty member at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. His research interest includes power system restructuring, power system planning, smart grid technologies, meta-heuristic optimization techniques, reliability analysis of renewable energy system, power quality analysis and renewable energy integration.

Om Prakash Mahela (M’13) was born in Sabalpura, Kuchaman City, Rajasthan, India, in 1977. He received the B.E. degree from the College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur, India, in 2002, and the M.Tech. degree from Jagannath University, Jaipur, India, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India, in 2018, all in electrical engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor with the Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, India. From 2004 to 2014, he was a Junior Engineer with the Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd., India and Assistant Engineer since July 20014. He has authored more than 100 research articles and book chapters. His research interest includes power quality, power system planning, grid integration of renewable energy sources, FACTS devices, transmission line protection, and condition monitoring. He was a recipient of the University rank certificate in 2002, Gold Medal in 2013, best research paper award from IEEE ICSEDPS 2018, C.V. Raman Gold Medal in 2019 and outstanding Reviewer Awards from Elsevier Journals.

P. Sanjeevikumar is SMIEEE'15, FIETE'18, FIE'18, FIET'19 and Charted Engineer (CEng., India) received his Bachelor (First Class), Master (Distinction), Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engg. from the University of Madras, Pondicherry University (India, 2002, 2006), University of Bologna (Italy, 2012). Research work focused in the field of Power Electronics (multi-phase/multilevel converters). Editorial Board / Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal, IET PEL, subject editor of IET RPG, subject editor of IET GTD, IEEE Access, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Journal of Power Electronics (JPE-Korea), FACETS (Canada).

Hassan Haes Alhelou (S’15) is a faculty member at Tisheen University, Lattakia, Syria. He is also a PhD researcher at the Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran. He is included in the 2018 Publons list of the top 1% best reviewer and researchers in the field of engineering. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Energy Conversion and Management Journal in 2016, ISA Transactions Journal in 2018, Applied Energy Journal in 2019, and many other Awards. He was the recipient of the best young researcher in the Arab Student Forum Creative among 61 researchers from 16 countries at Alexandria University, Egypt, 2011. He has published more than 30 research papers in the high quality peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has also performed more than 160 reviews for high prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Energy, International Journal of Electrical Power \& Energy Systems. He has participated in more than 15 industrial projects. His major research interests are Power systems, Power system dynamics, Power system operation and control, Dynamic state estimation, Frequency control, Smart grids, Micro-grids, Demand response, Load shedding, and Power system protection.