Electric Energy Systems

The new edition provides a broader insight into modern electric energy systems, shown by increasing levels of renewables penetration, smarter grids and active consumers. It covers current issues in the industry, including renewable generation with associated control and scheduling problems, HVDC transmission, and the use of synchrophasors (PMUs).

Antonio Gomez-Exposito received a six-year Industrial Engineering degree, major in Electrical Engineering, with honors, in 1982, and a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1985, both from the University of Seville, Spain. He is currently a full professor at the University of Seville, where he is chairing the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Post-Graduate Program on Electrical Energy Systems and the recently created Endesa Cathedra. In the late eighties, he created and is leading a research group with over twenty researchers, including fourteen doctors. Previously he was also a visiting professor in California and Canada.

Prof. Gomez-Exposito has co-authored several textbooks and monographs about Circuit Theory and Power System Analysis, of which the one published by Marcel Dekker, Power System State Estimation: Theory and Implementation, stands out. He is also co-author of nearly 200 technical publications, many of them in IEEE Transactions. In addition to his regular consulting activity, he has been principal investigator of over forty research projects, funded by public institutions and all major Spanish utilities. Practical results of those projects are power system state estimators, expert systems, digital relays, fault locators, training simulators, etc. Prof. Gomez-Exposito is a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Latin AmericaTransactions and has been involved in the organizing and technical committees of nearly twenty international conferences. Among other recognitions, he received in 2005 the "City of Seville Award" for his research activities in electric energy efficiency, as well as the "Novare Award" in 2007, granted by Endesa to fund a 0.5 Meuros research project. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Antonio J. Conejo received an MS degree from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts and a PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. A co-author of Decomposition Techniques in Mathematical Programming: Engineering and Science Applications. Professor Conejo has authored or co-authored over ninety papers in refereed journals, and has been the principal investigator of many research projects. His research interests include control, operations, planning and economics of electric energy systems, as well as statistics and optimization theory and its applications. Professor Conejo is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and an IEEE Fellow.

Claudio A. Canizares received an Electrical Engineering degree in April 1984 from the Escuela Politecnica Nacional (EPN), Quito-Ecuador, where he held various teaching and administrative positions from 1983 to 1993. His MSc (1988) and PhD (1991) degrees in Electrical Engineering are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a full professor at the University of Waterloo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and was the associate chairman of Graduate Studies (2000–2003), deputy chair (2003–2004), and acting chair (July–August 2004) of the Department. In the 1999–2000 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica of the Politecnico di Milano, and worked as a research consultant for ENEL-Ricerca and CESI in Milan. During his 2006–2007 sabbatical leave, he was an invited professor at each of the following institutions: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (September–October 2006); University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain (November–December 2006); and University of Seville, Seville, Spain (January–February 2007). His research activities concentrate mostly on the study of nonlinear systems stability, modeling and computational issues in ac/HVDC/FACTS power systems, and more recently in the areas of price forecasting, demand side management/demand response and multicarrier energy systems, all within the context of competitive electricity markets. In these areas, he is continuously collaborating with industry and university researchers in Canada and abroad, supervising multiple research fellows and graduate students, some of whom have received awards at important international conferences, and several hold leadership positions in industry and academia.

Dr. Canizares has authored and co-authored over 170 journal and conference papers, as well as various technical reports, book chapters and a popular computer program for bifurcation analysis of power systems. He has been invited to make keynote presentations at various seminars and conferences throughout the world, as well as participate in several technical IEEE and CIGRE committees and special publications. He is an active member of various IEEE and CIGRE committees, working groups and task forces, and currently holds, and has held in the past, several leadership appointments in some of these committees, which have led to IEEE-PES Working Group Recognition awards. In January 2007, he was granted the IEEE Fellow rank for contributions to voltage stability of power systems. He is also a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.