Intelligent Power Grids of Tomorrow, 1st ed. 2024 Modeling, Planning, Control and Operation Reliable and Sustainable Electric Power and Energy Systems Management Series

This book discusses various aspects of future intelligent power grids, covering key topics including the operation of smart grids and microgrids, resource optimization, and energy management. Over the last few decades, the use of solar photovoltaics (PVs) and wind turbine generators has increased significantly in an effort to make future power systems sustainable. However, the intensive integration of renewables in existing electrical networks has raised several control and operational issues due to their limited dispatch capability and intermittent generation. In addition, integrating new electrical loads, such as those produced by electric vehicles, heat pumps, and electric water heaters, in existing distribution networks negatively impacts the power-balance scenario. As such, these developments present both challenges and opportunities for the research community.

Dr. Nava Raj Karki obtained his MSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Belarussian National Technical University, Minsk in 1995 and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2011. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan. He is actively involved in IEEE activities and is the founding Vice Chair of the IEEE Nepal Subsection. Dr. Karki very actively promotes Academia–Industry collaboration in the Institute of Engineering and various multilateral initiatives like Erasmus Mundus Programme. He has published several papers on power system planning, reliability, distributed generation and restructuring and published a book on Electrical Engineering Materials (Narosa Series in Power and Energy Systems; Alpha Science International, 2007). 

Dr. Bishnu P. Bhattarai obtained his MSc in Power System Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and Osaka Sangyo University, Japan in 2010, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2015. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal from 2010 to 2012. From 2016, Dr. Bhattarai has been working as a researcher in the Department of Power and Energy System at the Idaho National Laboratory, USA. He is actively involved in professional activities, such as an executive committee member of the IEEE Eastern Idaho Section, Track chair of Smart Grid of IEEE Conferences on Technologies for Sustainability, and a regular reviewer of more than 15 international journals. His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and as conference publications in the area of energy security, smart grid, microgrid, demand response, grid resiliency, and cyber-physical power system. 

Dr. Ajit Kumar Verma