About the Book:

Utilities around the world are under increasing pressure to provide reliable and good quality power supply to their retail customers, and to reduce their operational costs. These concerns call for real time monitoring and control of the distribution system, which can be accomplished by deploying distribution automation (DA) systems, a key enabling technology for smart grids.

This book provides a detailed description of all the major components of DA system, including communication infrastructure and analysis tools. Topics covered include communication systems for distribution automation; load flow analysis; short circuit analysis; state estimation; feeder reconfiguration for loss reduction, service restoration, and load balancing; volt-var control; fault location; fault type identification; and economic analysis/cost benefit analysis.

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About the Editor:

Biswarup Das is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India where his research interests include distribution system analysis and automation, FACTS,  digital protection of power systems, power quality and power system harmonics, and distributed generation. He serves as an Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.