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Energy Internet

Systems and Applications

  • Provides an ideal resource for students in advanced graduate-level courses and special topics in energy, information and control systems
  • Presents the basic principles of energy Internet and emphasizes the current research trends in the field of energy Internet at an advanced level
  • Contains new systems-level knowledge of energy and information systems for sustaining the advancement of this emerging field
  • Includes instructor materials, case-studies, and worked examples throughout

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Architecture and Design of Energy Internet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Foundation and Background for Energy Internet Simulation

      • Shuqing Zhang, Shaopu Tang, Peter Breuhaus, Zhen Peng, Weijie Zhang
      Pages 3-31
    3. Modelling, Simulation and Analysis

      • Shuqing Zhang, Peter Breuhaus, Shaopu Tang, Zhen Peng, Xianfa Hu, Ning Liu et al.
      Pages 33-106
    4. Cyber-Physical System Security

      • Heping Jia, Yi Ding, Yishuang Hu, Yonghua Song
      Pages 107-119
  3. Energy Switching and Routing for Energy Internet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Modified P&O Approach Based Detection of the Optimal Power-Speed Curve for MPPT of Wind Turbines

      • Liuying Li, Yaxing Ren, Jian Chen, Kai Shi, Lin Jiang
      Pages 137-155
    3. Flexible Substation and Its Demonstration Project

      • Zhanfeng Deng, Jun Ge, Guoliang Zhao, Chaobo Dai
      Pages 157-192
    4. Energy “Routers”, “Computers” and “Protocols”

      • Chuantong Hao, Yuchao Qin, Haochen Hua
      Pages 193-208
    5. Two-Stage Optimization Strategies for Integrating Electric Vehicles in the Energy Internet

      • William Infante, Jin Ma, Xiaoqing Han, Wei Li, Albert Y. Zomaya
      Pages 209-238
  4. Information and Communication for Energy Internet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
    2. Key Data-Driven Technologies in the Energy Internet

      • Ting Yang, Yuqin Niu, Haibo Pen
      Pages 241-296
    3. Utilization of Big Data in Energy Internet Infrastructure

      • Songpu Ai, Chunming Rong, Junwei Cao
      Pages 297-320
    4. Artificial Intelligence Models Used for Prediction in the Energy Internet

      • Cristina Heghedus, Chunming Rong
      Pages 321-352
  5. Energy Management Systems for Energy Internet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
    2. Multiple Source-Load-Storage Cooperative Optimization of Energy Management for Energy Local Area Network Systems

      • Tao Zhang, Fuxing Zhang, Hongtao Lei, Rui Wang, Kaiwen Li, Yang Chen et al.
      Pages 355-380
    3. Power Quality and Power Experience

      • Jie Yang, Haochen Hua
      Pages 381-395
    4. Power Restoration Approach for Resilient Active Distribution Networks in the Presence of a Large-Scale Power Blackout

      • Chunqiu Xia, Qiang Yang, Le Jiang, Leijiao Ge, Wei Li, Albert Y. Zomaya
      Pages 397-419
    5. Internet Thinking for Layered Energy Infrastructure

      • Haochen Hua, Chuantong Hao, Yuchao Qin
      Pages 421-437

About this book

This textbook is the first of its kind to comprehensively describe the energy Internet, a vast network that efficiently supplies electricity to anyone anywhere and is an internet based wide area network for information and energy fusion. The chapters are organized into five parts: Architecture and Design, Energy Switching and Routing, Information and Communication, Energy Management Systems and Energy Market and Trading, and capture the spectrum of this exponential transformation, while also presenting the plethora of open problems that this transformation poses for researchers from mixed academic backgrounds. The scope includes key technologies on distributed energy sources, microgrids, energy storage, solar and wind energy, power grid, smart grid, power quality, power electronics, data centers, distributed computing and networking, cloud computing and big data, and software-defined networking. The book presents the basic principles of energy internet and emphasizes the current research trends in the field of energy Internet at an advanced level. It includes instructor materials, case-studies, and worked examples throughout.
This is an ideal resource for students in advanced graduate-level courses and special topics in energy, information and control systems, and is a useful tool for utility engineers who seek an intuitive understanding of the emerging applications of energy Internet. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Engineering, Design, and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Ahmed F Zobaa

  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Junwei Cao

About the editors

Ahmed Faheem Zobaa received the B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical power and machines from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1992, 1997, and 2002, respectively. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy at University of Exeter, U.K.  He was also an Instructor from 1992 to 1997, a Teaching Assistant from 1997 to 2002, an Assistant Professor from 2003 to 2008, an Associate Professor from 2008 to 2013 at Cairo University where he has also been a Professor (on leave) since December 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in power systems, an MSc Course Director and a Full Member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London, U.K. His main areas of expertise are power quality, (marine) renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, and lighting applications.

Dr. Zobaa is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, and International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education. He is also an Editorial Board member, Editor, Associate Editor, and Editorial Advisory Board member for many international journals. He is a registered Chartered Engineer, Chartered Energy Engineer, European Engineer, and International Professional Engineer. He is also a registered member of the Engineering Council U.K., Egypt Syndicate of Engineers, and the Egyptian Society of Engineers. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of U.K. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Energy Institute of U.K., the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Society of Arts, the African Academy of Science, and the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Also, He is a member of the International Solar Energy Society, the European PowerElectronics and Drives Association, and the IEEE Standards Association. 

Junwei Cao received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, in 2001. He received his bachelor and master degrees in control theories and engineering in 1998 and 1996, respectively, both from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently Professor and Vice Dean of Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is also Director of Open Platform and Technology Division, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology.  Prior to joining Tsinghua University in 2006, he was a Research Scientist at MIT LIGO Laboratory and NEC Laboratories Europe for about 5 years. He has published over 200 papers and cited by international scholars for over 18,000 times. He has authored or edited 8 books. His research is focused on distributed computing technologies and energy/power applications. Prof. Cao is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Member of the ACM and CCF.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Energy Internet

  • Book Subtitle: Systems and Applications

  • Editors: Ahmed F Zobaa, Junwei Cao

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45453-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45452-4Published: 18 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45455-5Published: 19 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45453-1Published: 17 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 441

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 124 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Energy Storage

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