This book will sell because of the ongoing challenges in power supply and the competitive environment engendered by the gradual deregulation of electricity supply around the world. It includes examples and information drawn from North America, Europe and Australasia.

Allows the reader to compare and learn from best practice and most up-to-date information from Europe, the US and Australia Shows the reader how to overcome day-to-day and strategic engineering problems rather than concentrating on poicy and market-structural issues Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Yong-Hua Song is Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Brunel and he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering/Nuclear Electric/Siemens Chair of Power Systems Analysis. He is the author of over 250 journal and conference papers.

Inhalt
Operation of Restructured Power Systems.- Modeling and Analysis of Electricity Markets.- Location-based Marginal Pricing of Electricity and Its Decomposition.- Co-ordinated Real-time Dispatch of Unbundled Electricity Markets.- Available Transfer Capability Evaluation.- Transmission Congestion Management.- Dynamic Congestion Management.- Financial Instruments and Their Role in Market Dispatch and Congestion Management.- Ancillary Services I: Pricing and Procurement of Reserves.- Ancillary Services II: Voltage Security and Reactive Power Management.- Load and Price Forecasting via Wavelet Transform and Neural Networks.- Analysis of Generating Companies' Strategic Behaviour.- Bidding Problems in Electricity Generation Market.- Transmission Services Improvement by FACTS Control.