**Meet the editors**

Majid Nayeripour: After an 8-year industrial experience and academic working in electrical engineering and renewable energy field, Majid Nayeripour was promoted to a full professor in the area of microgrid in 2016. He received the Sabbatical Award from the Shiraz University of Technology, Iran, and was invited to the Cologne University of Applied Science, Germany, in January 2016.

During his research at this university, he gained new experiences about the problems relating to the high-penetration level of distributed generations and 100% renewable energy in Germany, and he received the Fellowship Program Award for an experienced researcher from the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation in 2017. Currently, he is working at the Cologne University of Applied Science and is involved in the research on control and dynamic investigation of interconnected microgrids. He has published more than 120 journal and conference papers and 4 books and supervised more than 10 research projects.

Eberhard Waffenschmidt studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University (RWTH) in Aachen, where he received his PhD degree. Between 1995 and 2011, he was employed at the Philips Research as a senior scientist. Since 2011, he has been a professor of Electrical Power Grids at TH-Köln (Cologne University of Applied Science). Furthermore, he is a chairman of the Solarenergie

Förderverein Deutschland e.V. (SFV, German Association for the Promotion of Solar Power). His special interest is identifying and removing the obstacles on the way to a 100% use of renewable energy.

Mostafa Kheshti, born in Iran, received his BSc degree in Control Engineering from the Shiraz University of Technology, Iran, and worked at the Regional Dispatching Center of Fars Regional Electric Company. As a distinguished elite engineer, he was invited to join the School of Electrical Engineering at the Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 2011 where he received his MSc and PhD de-

grees with highest honors and full scholarships in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He joined the Shandong University afterward where he currently works as an associate professor. His research interests include stability control and optimization of the renewable energy integrated power grid with intelligent methods. He is a book editor of IntechOpen publications as well as the advisory panel of Elsevier.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Fuel Cells 21**

**Software 45**

**Microgrids 81**

Papanikolaou

Bacher and Henrik Madsen

Lucia-Andreea El-Leathey

**Including Smart Grids 99**

Chapter 7 **The EU Research Project PLANET 123**

Chapter 1 **Renewable Energy Microgrid Design for Shared Loads 1**

Chapter 2 **A Proposed Energy Management System to Overcome**

Chapter 3 **Energy Management System Designed for the Interconnected or Islanded Operation of a Microgrid Using LabVIEW**

Chapter 4 **Transformation of Conventional Houses to Smart Homes by**

Mohammad Shakeri and Nowshad Amin

Chapter 5 **Unconventional Backup Structures Used in Smart**

Chapter 6 **Assessment of Reliability of Composite Power System**

**Adopting Demand Response Program in Smart Grid 65**

Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu and Laurențiu Constantin Lipan

Thotakura Bharath Kumar, M. Ramamoorty and O. Chandra Sekhar

Andrea Schröder, Christoph Kahlen, Mariapia Martino and Antonis

**Intermittence of Hybrid Systems Based on Wind, Solar, and**

Maria Fernanda Alvarez Mendoza, César Angeles-Camacho, Peder

Ibrahim Aldaouab and Malcolm Daniels
