Reliability and Resiliency in Electric Distribution Systems

Reliability and Resiliency in Electric Power Systems presents a unified and modern view of reliability and resiliency across conventional, active, and smart electrical distribution systems, discussing fundamental concepts along with applications, emerging technology trends and planning methods. It presents current technology options for monitoring and controlling in outage management of active and smart distribution networks that affect reliability and resiliency. Detailed applications are presented alongside numerical examples and real case studies, exampling theoretical concepts discussed in the book. It introduces energy and customer-based indices for reliable assessment and their evaluation methods in active and smart networks. It then discusses a range of proven reliability enhancement methods at a level of depth and presentation not previously seen. The work is relevant to electrical engineering graduate students for education and doing research on probabilistic analysis of electric distribution systems, professional engineers working in the electric utilities, and consulting engineers. Managers and planners of power distribution systems can also consult the book to expand their knowledge of practical methods for analysis and design of reliable and resilient electric distribution systems.