Preface

Excerpt

Nowadays, the electric grid faces different requirements and challenges, in relation to the past. The deployment of renewable distributed generation has been leading to new challenges in the electric grid operation, due to the intermittent character of most renewable resources. At the same time, there are also new resources available for the grid management, such as energy storage technologies (including electric vehicles) with increasing efficiency and reliability, as well as decreasing costs. However, the main change is in the paradigm of the electric grid management, which is moving from an approach where the generation must always follow the load to a new approach where the load is also considered a manageable resource, which can be controlled to follow the available generation, using demand-side management and demand response programs. …