Residential Microgrids and Rural Electrifications

Residential Microgrids and Rural Electrifications contains an overview of microgrids' architecture, load assessments, designing of microgrids for residential systems, and rural electrifications to help readers understand the fundamentals. Including many new topics in the field of home automation and the application of IoT for microgrids monitoring and control, the book includes sections on the infrastructure necessary for charging Electric Vehicles in residential systems and rural electrifications and how to estimate the energy and cost of various combinations of energy resources. Many examples and practical case studies are included to enhance and reinforce learning objective goals.

Those in engineering research and technical professions will be able to perform energy and cost analyses of various combinations of energy sources by using advanced, real simulation tools.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban received the bachelor's degree from the University of Madras, the master's degree from Pondicherry University and the Ph.D. degree University of Bologna. Currently he is working as a Faculty Member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. He has authored 300 plus scientific papers and has received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence. He is a fellow the Institution of Engineers, FIE, India, fellow the Institution of Telecommunication and Electronics Engineers, FIETE, India and fellow the Institution of Engineering and Technology, IET, UK. He serves as an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board of refereed journal, in particular, the IEEE Systems Journal, the IEEE Access Journal, the IET Power Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics, Korea, and the subject editor of the subject Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation, the subject Editor of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and the subject editor of FACTS journal, Canada.

C. Sharmeela holds a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.E. in Power Systems Engineering from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 1999, 2000, and 2009 respectively. She did P.G Diploma in Electrical Energy Management and Energy Audit from Annamalai University, Chidambaram in 2010. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of EEE, CEG campus, Anna University, Chennai, India. Over the past twenty years, she has taught a variety of courses to undergraduates and postgraduates. She did several research projects and consultancy work in renewable energy, power quality & design of PQ compensators for various industries. She published more than 30 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and more than 50 research papers in international and national conferences in India and abroad. She has been talking about the importance of power quality for more than 10 years. Under her supervision are 14 PhDs (5 completed and 9 ongoing), 58 master's students, 10 undergraduates, and 4 AMIE students. Over the years, she conducted a short-term course on power quality for Tamilnadu Electricity Board engineers. Her paper won the best paper award at IEEE POWERCON 2004 held in Singapore. She is a senior member of IEEE, a Life member of CBIP, a Life-member of the Institution of Engineers (India), ISTE, and SSI.

Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor of electrical power engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. Subsequently, he held positions at VIT University (India), National Institute of Technology (India), Qatar University, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Prof. Padmanaban has authored over 750 scientific papers and has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University. He is editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several important refereed journals, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who–USA 2017 for his contributions to power electronics and renewable energy research.

Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen currently works at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University and Head of the Esbjerg Energy Section. On this research, activities established the Center for Bioenergy and Green Engineering in 2009 and serve as the Head of the research group. He has vast experience in the field of Bio-refinery concepts and Biogas production–Anaerobic Digestion. Implementation projects of Bio-energy systems in Denmark with provinces and European states. He served as the technical advisory for many industries in this field. He has executed many large scale European Union and United Nation projects in research aspects of Bioenergy, bio refinery processes, the full chain of biogas and Green Engineering. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers. He was a member on invitation with various capacities in the committee for over 250 various international conferences. Focus areas Renewable Energy - Sustainability - Green jobs for all.