Smart grids from a global perspective : bridging old and new energy systems
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Smart grids from a global perspective : bridging old and new energy systems
(Power systems)
Springer, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book presents a cross-disciplinary
approach to smart grids, offering an invaluable basis for understanding their
complexity and potential, and for discussing their technical, legal, economic, societal, psychological
and security aspects.
Smart grids are a complex phenomenon involving new, active roles for consumers
and prosumers, novel social, political and cultural practices, advanced ICT,
new markets, security of supply issues, the informational turn in energy,
valuation of assets and investments, technological innovation and
(de)regulation. Furthermore, smart grids offer new interfaces, in turn creating
hybrid fields: with the increasing use of electric vehicles and electric
transportation, smart grids represent the crossroads
of energy and mobility. While the aim
is to achieve more sustainable production, transportation and use of energy, the
importance of smart grids actually has less to do with electricity, heat or gas,
and far more with transforming the infrastructure needed to deliver energy, as
well as the roles of its owners, operators and users. The immediate goal is to
contribute positively to a sustainable world society.
The chapters are revised and expanded texts based upon lectures
delivered at the Groningen Energy Summer School 2014. Questions for further
discussion at the end of each chapter highlight the key themes that emerge.
The book offers an indispensable resource for researchers, professionals and
companies in the power supply industry, and for students seeking to broaden and
deepen their understanding of smart grids.
Table of Contents
Foreword.- Introduction.- How
Energy Distribution will Change: an ICT Perspective.- Smart Business for Smart
Users: a Social Agenda for Developing Smart Grids.- Behavioral Aspects of Smart
Grids.- What are Smart Grids? Epistemology, Interdisciplinarity and Getting
Things Done.- Cyber-Security Vulnerabilities: an Impediment against Further
Development of Smart Grid.- The Optimal Control Problem in Smart Energy Grids.-
Economic Regulation of the Energy Market.- Frequency Regulation in Power Grids
by Optimal Load and Generation Control.- Charging Electric Vehicles in the Smart
Grid.- Demand Side and Dispatchable Power Plants with Electric Mobility.- Privacy
Issues in the Use of Smart Meters - Law Enforcement Use of Smart Meter Data.- Conducting
a Smarter Grid: Reflecting in the Power and Security behind Smart Grids with
Foucault.- Emerging e-Practices, Information Flows and the Home: a
(Sociological) Research Agenda on Smart Energy Systems.- Smart Grid Pilot
Projects and Implementation in the Field.- Energy Efficiency in a Mobile
World.- End User Research in Power Matching City II.
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