Electric System Operations: Evolving to the Smart Grid: From Deregulation to the Smart Grid - Hardcover

Subramanian Vadari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608075494 ISBN 13: 9781608075492

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Here is a timely resource that gives engineers and managers an insightful business perspective on electric systems operations, revealing how this area is critical to a utility's ability to provide reliable power to its customers. The book presents a thorough definition of system operations, identifying and explaining the various systems that support this function and how they integrate into the utility. Professionals discover how a utility's network operation is a key contributor to the viable sustainment of its business. The book presents the convergence of the systems used in the grid operations of today and addresses the emerging needs of the smart grid operations of tomorrow. Practitioners learn how system operations help to ensure the right levels of safety, reliability and efficiency in everything that relates to transmission and distribution grid management. The book discusses important technologically intensive systems - like EMS, DMS - that function inside the control center. Additionally, readers are introduced to DEMS - an emerging system which has been designed to help utilities provide better services to customers, and enable customers to become an integral part of the overall utility system.

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About the Author

Subramanian Vadari is the president of Modern Grid Solutions in Sammamish, Washington. A Senior Member of the IEEE, Dr. Vadari holds an M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, both from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608075494
• ISBN 13: 9781608075492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254