This book presents comprehensive coverage of the means to integrate renewable power, namely wind and solar power. It looks at new approaches to meet the challenges, such as increasing interconnection capacity among geographical areas, hybridisation of different distributed energy resources and building up demand response capabilities.

This book brings together contributions from international experts with academic and industry backgrounds to provide a systematic overview of ocean energy technologies, their readiness and modelling, as well as installation and grid connection technologies.

This book discusses variability, scalability, and stability of microgrids. It includes coverage of virtual plants and storage, providing numerous examples and case studies as well as simulation/experimental results in each chapter.

This book assesses how global lightning may respond to global climate change, provides thorough coverage of the lightning phenomenon and its interaction with various objects, and covers methods for the effective protection of structures and systems.

This book assesses how global lightning may respond to global climate change, provides thorough coverage of the lightning phenomenon and its interaction with various objects, and covers methods for the effective protection of structures and systems.

A concise and hands-on overview of medium voltage direct current (MVDC) technology for electric power grids, written by international experts with broad experience. The book covers fundamentals, converters, transformers and control for both stationary and mobile applications.

Demand response (DR) describes controlled changes in the power consumption whose role is to better match the power demand with the supply. This reference, written by an international team of experts from academia and industry, covers the principles, implementation and applications of DR.

This book covers the very latest in theory and technology for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), for both coupling as well as radiative WPT. It describes the theory as well as the technology and applications.