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List of contents
1. Introduction. Island power systems worldwide. Features of island power systems. Issues of island power systems. Initiatives towards smarter island power systems. Part I: Technical aspects of island power systems. 2. Frequency stability. Modeling and simulation of frequency stability in island systems. Impact of renewable energy sources. 3. Frequency protection. Review of frequency protection. Design and application of conventional frequency protection schemes. Design and application of advanced frequency protection schemes. 4. Advanced control devices. Sizing of advanced control devices. Modeling of advanced control devices. Application of advanced control devices to island power systems. Part II: Economic aspets of island power systems 5. Regulation and economic operation. Review of regulation. Economic operation. 6. Weekly unit commitment models for island power systems. Mathematical formulation. Solution techniques and solvers. Illustrative examples. Economic assessment of renewable energy sources. Modeling of renewable energy sources in weekly unit commitment models. Economic assessment of renewable energy sources. Economic assessment of advanced control devices in island power systems. Modeling of advances control devices in weekly unit commitment models. Economic assessment of advanced control devices.
About the author
LUKAS SIGRIST received his M.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree from Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid in 2010. He is a research associate at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. His areas of interest are power system stability and control.
ENRIQUE LOBATO Enrique Lobato Miguélez recived his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He develops his research activities at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. His areas of interest are power system planning and operation.
FRANSCISCO ECHAVARREN recieved his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain in 2001 and 2006 respectively. He is a research associate at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. His areas of interest are power system modeling and analysis including voltage.
IGNACIO EGIDO received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He develops his research activities at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. His areas of interest are power system stability and control.
LUIS ROUCO obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1985 and 1990 respectively. He is Professor in the School of Engineering of Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He has served as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1999 through 2005. Profesor Rouco develops his research activities at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT). His areas of interest are modeling, analysis, simulation, control and identification of electric power systems. He has supervised a number of research projects for Spanish and European public administrations, Spanish and foreign companies. Professor Rouco has published extensively in international journals and conferences. Professor Rouco is member of Cigré and IEEE, President of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE Power Engineering Society del IEEE and Member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish National Committee of CIGRE. He has been visiting scientist at Ontario Hydro (Toronto, Canada), MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) y ABB Power Systems (Vasteras, Sweden).
Summary
This book will be critical reading to all researchers and professionals in power system planning and engineering, electrical/power delivery, RES and control engineering. It will also be of interest to researchers in signal processing and telecommunications and renewable energy, as well as power system utility providers.
