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Flexible Distribution Systems and Distributed Energy Resources

Concepts, Strategies, Emerging Technologies and Market

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Gevork B. Gharehpetian, Hamid Reza Baghaee, Mahdi Zolfaghari, Atousa Yazdani
  • Language: English

Flexible Distribution Systems and Distributed Energy Resources: Concepts, Strategies, Emerging Technologies and Market is a comprehensive resource on innovative solutions for Di… Read more

Description

Flexible Distribution Systems and Distributed Energy Resources: Concepts, Strategies, Emerging Technologies and Market is a comprehensive resource on innovative solutions for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration and grid flexibility. DERs are pivotal to enabling the global energy transition. Rapid integration of DERs into traditional power systems present new challenges that require innovative solutions that bridge the gap between technology, policy, and economics.

Chapters present a comprehensive overview of DERs and grid flexibility and their associated integration challenges. Innovative solutions including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning algorithms (MLAs), IoT, blockchain, and digital twins are examined. Chapters also offer systems level perspectives on deploying advanced control strategies for DERs in low inertia grid and analysis of power systems that can handle high DER penetration while maintaining flexibility. Additionally, solutions for navigating evolving market structures and economic frameworks such as peer-to-peer trading and flexibility markets and aligning DER deployment with policy innovation and future trends for flexibility are examined. Real-world case studies are included to demonstrate practical implementation strategies of these solutions.

This book is valuable to engineers, professionals, academics, and policy makers engaged in the energy transition and interested in developing flexible power systems.
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Key features

  • Applies DERs’ advanced control, optimization, artificial intelligence, and real-time monitoring techniques, considering emerging technologies for intelligent grid operation.
  • Discusses demand-side flexibility, virtual power plants, microgrids, energy storage, and electric vehicle integration.
  • Evaluates market frameworks and examines regulatory, policy, cybersecurity, interoperability, and implementation challenges.
  • Presents future trends and strategic pathways for building flexible, sustainable, resilient, and digitally enabled distribution networks.

Readership

Professionals, academics, and students engaged in the energy transition to modern power systems using recent advancements in AI, MLAs, IoT, cloud-based solutions, blockchain, and digital twins, electrical engineers, grid operators, and energy policymakers, utility planners, renewable energy developers, and microgrid designers, to mid-career engineers and technical managers interested in flexible DER solutions, graduate students and PhD candidates in electrical engineering, energy systems, or sustainable infrastructure programs

Table of contents

1. The Evolution of Power System

2. Distributed Energy Resources

3. Operation, Control, and Strategies of DERs in Smart Grids

4. Foundational Concepts and Principles of Grid Flexibility

5. Demand-Side Flexibility Assessment

6. Strategic Integration of DERs for a Flexible Grid

7. Economic and Market Perspectives on Grid Flexibility

8. Emerging Technologies for Grid Flexibility

9. Policy Innovations and Future Trends for Flexibility

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Gevork B. Gharehpetian

Gevork B. Gharehpetian received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. As a PhD student, he received a scholarship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and he was with High Voltage Institute of RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. He has been Assistant Professor then Full Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) since 1997. He has been selected for numerous awards as a distinguished researcher from groups such as Ministry of Science Research and Technology (MSRT) and Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IAEEE). Prof. Gharehpetian is a senior member and member of CIGRE, IEEE and IAEEE, respectively. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of IAEEE, and has contributed to numerous works from international publishers of repute. His teaching and research interests include Smart Grid, Microgrids, Distributed Generation, FACTS and HVDC Systems, Monitoring of Power Transformers and its Transients.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Hamid Reza Baghaee

Dr. Hamid Reza Baghaee received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT). He was a short-term scientist with CERN and ABB Switzerland and then joined the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Tarbiat Moadares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran, where he is now an Assistant Professor. He has authored and contributed to numerous books and journals from international publishers. His special fields of interest are micro- and smart grids, cyber-physical power systems, power system cyber security and cyber-resiliency, application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and big data analytics in power systems, real-time simulation of power systems, distributed generation, and renewable energy resources, FACTS, HVDC and custom power devices, power electronics applications in power systems, Power Electronics-Dominated Grids (PEDGs), power quality, real-time simulation of power systems, and power system operation, control, monitoring, and protection.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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Mahdi Zolfaghari

Dr. Zolfaghari is currently an Adjunct Professor, Iran Grid Secure Operation Research Center, Amirkabir University of Technology., Iran. Dr. Zolfaghari has contributed to numerous books and publications. He is an Editor for the Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Australia, and the Journal of Electrical Science & Engineering, Singapore, as well as a member of the Iranian Inventors Association, IEEE, and ICEO. His research interests include smart grids, renewable energy, and analysis and robust control of complex and uncertain systems. Management Company, Iran. His research interests include smart grids, renewable energy, and analysis and robust control of complex and uncertain systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor, Iran Grid Secure Operation Research Center, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

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Atousa Yazdani

Dr. Atousa Yazdani is a Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, USA. She has many years of industry experience in design, modeling and analysis of power systems. Her main research interest is in the application of power electronic apparatus in power systems, dynamic system analysis and testing of power systems with the inclusion of novel technologies. She has received her PhD from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

She was involved with several consulting projects both in USA and abroad. She has been instrumental in several utility scaled projects such as integration of renewable energy, and implementation of stability algorithms utilizing synchrophasors data.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, USA