Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Maria Fernanda Alvarez Mendoza, César Angeles-Camacho, Peder Bacher and Henrik Madsen


Preface

power supply.

decarbonization.

Emerging from a conventional power system to a more evolving dynamical system in which renewable energy sources play major roles, comes with benefits of sustainable and clean power generation in the form of smart grids. However, the intermittency of these resources imposes uncertainty and complexity to different layers of the system. As the continuity of power supply to the end-users is of significant importance, plenty of research related to the design of microgrids, energy management, and strategies is required to achieve a reliable

This book aims to present the recent materials related to the smart microgrids and the man‐ agement of intermittent renewable energy sources that organized into seven chapters.

Chapter 1 studies the optimal sizing and management of different microgrid configurations,

Chapter 2 presents an energy management system with several approaches to overcome in‐ termittency and create a semi-dispatchable generation supply in a power system with a

Chapter 3 develops a LabVIEW design and testing of an energy management system for the

Chapter 4 works on a new strategy of a home energy management system in a smart grid environment to transform ordinary premises to a smart house to be energy efficient by sim‐

Chapter 5 presents the unconventional backup structures in low-voltage smart microgrids and switching to a backup power supply to maintain the continuous power supply to the loads. Chapter 6 focuses on composite system reliability assessment where reliability modeling of power system components is analyzed by the node elimination method and modified minimal cutset method that would be useful in the planning and operation of larger power systems.

Chapter 7 introduces the European research project called PLANET, which will aid different energy networks to leverage innovative energy conversion in alternative carriers and stor‐ age technologies to explore, identify, evaluate, and quantitatively assess optimal grid plan‐ ning and management strategies for future energy scenarios that target full energy system

In the call for the chapters in this book, we were overwhelmed with several high-quality manuscripts. However, to make the quality and clarity of the book easy to follow for differ‐ ent readers, only a handful was selected to briefly present the recent research on the smart

including solar panels, wind turbines, and battery energy storage systems.

small wind turbine, solar panels, fuel cells, and a hydrogen storage system.

interconnected or islanded operation of a microgrid to the public electric grid.

ply rescheduling operation time of the appliances at home.
