This text is an introduction to the use of control in distributed power generation. It shows the reader how reliable control can be achieved so as to realize the potential of small networks of diverse energy sources, either singly or in coordination, for meeting concerns of energy cost, energy security and environmental protection.
The book demonstrates how such microgrids, interconnecting groups of generating units and loads within a local area, can be an effective means of balancing electrical supply and demand. It takes advantage of the ability to connect and disconnect microgrids from the main body of the power grid to give flexibility in response to special events, planned or unplanned.
In order to capture the main opportunities for expanding the power grid and to present the plethora of associated open problems in control theory Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems is organized to treat three key themes, namely:

• system architecture and integration;
• modelling and analysis; and
• communications and control. Each chapter makes use of examples and simulations and appropriate problems to help the reader study. Tools helpful to the reader in accessing the mathematical analysis presented within the main body of the book are given in an appendix.
  Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems will enable readers new to the field of distributed power generation and networked control, whether experienced academic migrating from another field or graduate student beginning a research career, to familiarize themselves with the important points of the control and regulation of microgrids. It will also be useful for practising power engineers wishing to keep abreast of changes in power grids necessitated by the diversification of generating methods.

Illustrated throughout with technical examples and simulation studies Extensive use of problems and exercises help the reader to assimilate content Necessary mathematical background and fundamental analytical tools supplied in appendix for easy accessibility without cluttering the main text Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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MagdiSadek Mahmoud has been a professor of engineering since 1984. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK ((Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of thirty-six (36) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 525 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of two national, one regional and several university prizes for outstanding research in engineering and applied mathematics. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). During the past ten years at KFUPM, he managed several projects with funds exceeding 4 million SR. He served on theeditorial board of several journals and was the keynote speakers of several international conferences. He is a fellow of the IEE and a senior member of the IEEE and the CEI (UK).

Inhalt
Introduction.- Distributed Generation Plant.- Supply and Demand in the Electric Power Grid.- Control Methods for Microgrids.- Computational Intelligence for Microgrids.- A System-of-Systems Framework for Microgrids.- Networked Control of Microgrid System-of Systems.- Distributed Control Approach.- Hierarchical Structuring and Control.- Appendix: Mathematical Preliminaries.