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Hosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2025
- Editors: Hossam Mousa, Karar Mahmoud, Matti Lehtonen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 9 1 2 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 9 1 3 - 4
Hosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is a holistic guidebook to this critical aspect of power systems, and the essential developme… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is a holistic guidebook to this critical aspect of power systems, and the essential developments required to support the transition to sustainable energy sources.
This book begins by establishing fundamental principles of hosting capacity in energy systems. It highlights modern challenges in transitioning to renewable and distributed energy sources, and the key role hosting capacity plays in the planning and operation of a successful system. Later chapters go into detail on a variety of practical hosting capacity calculation methods, and enhancement techniques, alongside available tools and software solutions to hosting capacity problems.
Collecting the very latest in this essential, under-collated area, Hosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems supports students, researchers, and engineers in planning hosting capacity aspects for successful renewable and sustainable energy systems.
Outlines the fundamental concepts of hosting capacity and its relation to sustainable energy systems
Provides a range of accurate, flexible options of tools, software, calculations, and enhancement techniques
Supports readers in mastering the latest theoretical and practical developments
Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, academics, researchers, and industry engineers working on distribution for sustainable energy
1. Introduction to Energy Conversion Systems
2. Impacts of Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Storage Systems, and Hydrogen on Modern Power Systems
3. State of the Art Hosting Capacity Concepts
4. Operational Performance Limits
5. Hosting Capacity Calculation Methods
6. Tools, Software, and Test Systems for Hosting Capacity Assessments
7. Hosting Capacity Enhancement Strategies
8. Developments Toward Sustainable Energy System Operation
9. Discussion and Conclusion
2. Impacts of Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Storage Systems, and Hydrogen on Modern Power Systems
3. State of the Art Hosting Capacity Concepts
4. Operational Performance Limits
5. Hosting Capacity Calculation Methods
6. Tools, Software, and Test Systems for Hosting Capacity Assessments
7. Hosting Capacity Enhancement Strategies
8. Developments Toward Sustainable Energy System Operation
9. Discussion and Conclusion
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443339127
- eBook ISBN: 9780443339134
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Hossam Mousa
Hossam H. H. Mousa is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is also an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at South Valley University, Egypt, where he started as a Teaching Assistant in 2018. He earned his B.Sc. in 2017 and his M.Sc. in Electrical Power and Machines Engineering in 2020, both from South Valley University. He has authored or co-authored several publications in top-ranked journals, and international conferences. His research interests include electrical power engineering, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques for renewable energy systems, power systems, energy management, applied machine learning, and control systems. His current research focuses on hosting capacity estimation and optimization using machine learning techniques for modern power systems.
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Karar Mahmoud
Karar Mahmoud is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Aswan University, Egypt. From 2019 to 2023, he has been with Aalto University, as a Research Fellow with the Group of Prof. M. Lehtonen, Department of EEA, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He has authored or co-authored several publications in top-ranked journals, including IEEE journals, international conferences, and book chapters. His research interests include power systems, renewable energies, smart grids, energy storage, and distributed generation. He was awarded the Prestigious Egyptian State Encouragement Award in the field of engineering sciences, in 2021, and honored by Egypt’s Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). He holds the position of topic editor in four classified scientific journals, in addition to being a guest editor for more than 10 special scientific issues on advanced scientific engineering topics.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt; Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, FinlandML
Matti Lehtonen
Matti Lehtonen has been a Full Professor and the Head of the Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering Group at Aalto University, Finland, since 1999. Prior this role he worked with VTT Energy, Finland, from 1987 to 2003. His research interests include power system planning and assets management, power system protection, including earth fault problems, harmonic-related issues, high voltage systems, power cable insulation, and polymer nanocomposites. He is an Editor and a Special Issue Editor of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution and an Associate Editor of Electric Power Systems Research.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head, Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering Group, Aalto University, Finland