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Planning of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Electric Vehicles and Microgrid

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Microgrids and smart grids are emerging as the latest trending aspect in power industries. The smart grid integrates the technology dealing with Information and Communication in almost all aspects of power systems starting from electricity generation till consumption in order to improve the reliability of energy consumption and service, minimize the environmental impact, enable active participation of the consumers, new products and markets, improves the efficiency leading to more safe and reliable energy production and distribution. The other benefits include reducing carbon emission, supports the increased use of electric vehicles and creates wider opportunities for employment. Smart grids can be seen as a combination of microgrids and mini grids among which microgrid plays a major role in accomplishing authentic and more secure energy supply for retail load as well as distributed generation. On the other hand, microgrid can be seen as a decentralized energy system comprising distributed energy sources with demand management, storage and generations with loads which are capable of operating either in parallel or independently. Despite the benefits, smart grid as well as microgrids face several power quality-related issues and challenges which are to be met out in order to avail the entire benefits of this emerging technology. The challenges faced by the smart grid and microgrid can be categorized as two, viz., wide variations in power quality which are unpredictable including, slow voltage changes, frequency deviations, harmonics, flicker and unbalance. Events including rapid voltage changes, dips, swells and interruptions. The disturbances and variations in power quality are mainly caused due to harmonic emission by power electronic devices, interference between power line carrier communication and devices, immunity of the devices and weakening of the transmission grid. This chapter aims to identify the root cause for the above-said power quality issues and challenges and investigation of various mitigation techniques.

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Vijayalakshmi, S., Shenbagalakshmi, R., Kamalini, C.P., Marimuthu, M., Venugopal, R. (2022). Power Quality Issues in Smart Grid/Microgrid. In: Bohre, A.K., Chaturvedi, P., Kolhe, M.L., Singh, S.N. (eds) Planning of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Electric Vehicles and Microgrid. Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0979-5_17

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