Smart Grid: Basics to Advanced Technologies

Prof. N. P. Padhy
Professor,
Dept. of Electrical Engg.
IIT Roorkee
Roorkee-247667
Uttarakhand
This course covers the fundamental aspects of the smart grid and its application to the existing power system. It introduces state-of-the-art smart grid technologies like electric vehicles, AC/DC microgrids, energy storage, phasor measurement unit, cyber security, etc. In addition, the course talks about the trends, modeling, planning, operation, and control of energy storage technologies. Further, it discusses the architecture, operation, and control strategy of AC, DC, and hybrid AC-DC microgrids. This course also emphasizes on renewable energy sources integration into the present grid and microgrids, and further explores its operation, analysis, management, control, protection, and monitoring issues. The laboratory-scale demonstrations have been provided to validate a few concepts covered in this course.