Community Energy and Microgrids

This book focuses on community energy and microgrids with details including system control, operation, optimization, as well as communication requirements. It provides insight into future community microgrids development for scholars/engineers in academic and industry communities with conceptual illustration, investigations, and examples in the changing energy landscape. The topics covered includes Basic understanding of community energy and microgrids; Overview of cutting-edge technologies in power converter control and distributed power generation; Energy storage systems and electric vehicles in home energy systems; Demand response and fault protection with working principles; Monitoring, communication and control of a microgrid from a practical point of view, toward operational benefit optimization. This book can promote research in renewable energy and future smart grid and motivate the generation of new technologies to address the current challenges. The target audiences include scholars, researchers, students, lab technicians, engineers, managers in both academic and industry broader communities.

Focuses on community energy and microgrids covering power converters as well as system operation and control Include examples and testing results to demonstrate the control, operation and optimization of microgrids Assist readers understand the concept and theory through numerous figures and block diagrams

Autorentext
Dr. Jiefeng Hu received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is currently an associate professor in power electronics and smart microgrids. He is a stream leader of the Centre for New Energy Transition Research (CfNETR) and the program coordinator (electrical engineering) of the Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability (IISS) at Federation University Australia. Previously, he was an assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he led an international team to develop renewable energy technologies for smart cities. Over the past years, supported by both government and industry sectors, Dr. Hu has led several projects exceeding AU$ 3M in funding to conduct cutting-edge research. He has a career total of more than 150 research outputs, including one authored book, one edited book, one book chapter, 89 refereed journal articles, 56 refereed conference proceedings, and one patent. He serves as an editor/ associate editor on prestigious IET and IEEE journals.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Community Microgrid Features and Configurations.- Intelligent Power Electronic Converters and Control.- Distributed Generation.- Energy Storage Systems and Electric Vehicles.- Home Energy System.- Power Qualities and Stability.- Load Forecasting and Demand Response.- Fault Detection and Protection.- Monitoring, Communication and Control.- Microgrid Operation Optimization.<p