Smart Grid

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the Electricity Currents? section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier. Zusammenfassung Covers Smart Grids, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the innovations supporting its development, and clarifying how the Smart Grid can support the integration of Renewable Energy resources.

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Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.

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Covers Smart Grids, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the innovations supporting its development, and clarifying how the Smart Grid can support the integration of Renewable Energy resources.

Inhalt

Part I: Setting the context: The what, why, how, if and when of smart grid
Chapter 1: Smart grid is a lot more than just "technology
Chapter 2: Smart regulation for the smart grid
Chapter 3: From smart grid to smart energy usage: Reengaging customer demand
Chapter 4: Efficiency and ethics of dynamic pricing
Chapter 5: The equity implications of smart grid

Part II: Smart supply: Integrating renewable and distributed generation
Chapter 6: Prospects for renewable energy: meeting the challenges of integration with storage
Chapter 7: The smart grid vision and roadmap for California
Chapter 8: Realizing the potential of distributed generation
Chapter 9: What role for micro-grids?
Chapter 10: Renewable integration through direct load control and demand response
Chapter 11: Riding the wave: The potential of the smart grid for integrating wind resources

Part III: Smart infrastructure, smart prices, smart devices, smart customers, smart demand
Chapter 12: Software infrastructure and the smart grid
Chapter 13: The evolution of demand response in RTO markets
Chapter 14: Smart pricing in organized electricity markets
Chapter 15: How large C&I customers respond to dynamic prices - the California experience
Chapter 16: Smart pricing to reduce network investment in smart grids - the international experience
Chapter 17: Where do customers fit into the smart grid puzzle?
Chapter 18: Customer view of smart grid - Set and forget?
Chapter 19: Customer side of the meter

Part VI: Case studies and applications
Chapter 20: Demand response participation in PJM's energy and capacity markets
Chapter 21: Ausgrid's smart grid vision
Chapter 22: Perfect partners: Wind power and Electric Vehicles - A New Zealand case study
Chapter 23: Impact of EVs on day-ahead prices: The French connection