The massive electric power blackout in the northeastern US and Canada on August 14–15, 2003 catalyzed discussions about modernizing the US electricity grid. Industry sources suggested that investments of $50–100 billion would be needed. This work seeks to better understand an important piece...

Requirement of green supply with higher quality has been consumers’ demand around the globe. The electrical power system is expected to deliver undistorted sinusoidal rated voltage and current continuously at rated frequency to the consumers. This paper presents a comprehensive review of...

A hybrid method comprising a chaos synchronization (CS)-based detection scheme and an Extension Neural Network (ENN) classification algorithm is proposed for power quality monitoring and analysis. The new method can detect minor changes in signals of the power systems. Likewise, prominent...

The impact of wind turbines and photovoltaic systems on network operation and power quality (harmonics, and voltage fluctuations) is very important. The capability of the power system to absorb this perturbation is dependent on the fault level at the point of common coupling. The paper deals...

Electric power systems are among the greatest achievements of the last century. Today, important issues, such as an ever-increasing demand, the flexible and reliable integration of distributed generation or a growth in disturbing loads, must be borne in mind. In this context, smart grids play a...

Electric Vehicle (EV) technology is expected to take a major share in the light-vehicle market in the coming decades<em>.</em> Charging of EVs will put an extra burden on the distribution grid and in some cases adjustments will need to be made. On the other hand, EVs have the potential to support the...

The extensive deployment of megawatt-scale wind turbines is bringing more challenges to the safety and stability of electric grid than ever before. This is not only because of the unstable wind over time but the increased risk of power quality pollution by defective wind turbines particularly...

The integration of wind power into national grids introduces a unique set of challenges. The wind-turbine generators are incapable of supplying the voltage and frequency control and they absorb significant amounts of reactive power particularly when there is a fault in the system. The utilities,...

Parallel to growing grid-integrated applications, the power converters have been an important research field for the power conversion and power quality. The converters can be used in different power levels ranging from large adjustable speed drives to low power household applications and office...

The development of distribution networks for participation in active network management (ANM) and smart grids is introduced using the microgrid concept. In recent years, this issue has been researched and implemented by many experts. The second part of this paper describes those developed...