Microgrids and Active Distribution Networks

S. Chowdhury is a Senior Research Officer at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She was a consulting engineer at M.N. Dastur and Co. Ltd from 1991 to 1996 and then held various academic posts at Women's Polytechnic, Kolkata, India from 1998 to 2007. She is a member of the IET, IE (India) and IEEE. S.P. Chowdhury is Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader then Professor at Jadavpur University, India between 1993 and 2008. He is a fellow of the IET (with CEng), IE (India) and IETE (India), and member of the IEEE. He is on the IET Knowledge Management Board, previously Technical Professional Service Board. P. Crossley has been Director of the Joule Centre since 2008 and Professor of Power Systems since 2006 at the University of Manchester. He was at Queen's University, Belfast as Professor and Director of the Power and Energy research cluster from 2002 to 2006 and at UMIST as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer then Reader from 1991 to 2002.

Chapter 1: Distributed generation and Microgrid concept
Chapter 2: Distributed energy resources
Chapter 3: Impacts of Microgrid
Chapter 4: Microgrid and active distribution network management system
Chapter 5: Protection issues for Microgrids
Chapter 6: Power electronic interfaces
Chapter 7: SCADA and active distribution networks
Chapter 8: Impact of DG integration on power quality and reliability
Chapter 9: Microgrid economics
Chapter 10: Market participation of Microgrids
Appendices