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Smart Grid Fundamentals
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Smart Grid Fundamentals

by Radian Belu
February 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
486 pages
22h 54m
English
CRC Press
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4Renewable Energy, Distributed Generation in Smart Grids

DOI: 10.1201/9780429174803-4

4.1 Introduction

Economic, technological and environmental incentives and issues are changing the face of the electricity generation and transmission. Centralized energy generation structures, needing very complex and bulk power networks to produce and to transfer energy to the consumers, have high investment, operation and maintenance costs, while the overall system efficiency is low due to the large losses in these networks and systems. At the same time, the existing electricity and energy infrastructures are becoming older, and in addition, there are new energy supply security and environmental issues with the construction of new network components (e.g. ...

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ISBN: 9781482256703