Electric Grid Books:
The Grid and the Village:
Disaster
Grid Integration of
Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Strengthening the Grid:
The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity,
Finding Community, Surviving Disaster
— by Stephen Doheny-Farina
This book's great achievement rests not only
on the author's sympathetic storyteller's eye,
but also on his strikingly unique selection and
ordering of information. His chapters are a weave
of storm narrative, vignettes on the origin and
evolution of the modern-day grid around Potsdam,
and smart and notably self-aware riffs on the
media's dubious role in disaster, this book being
one example.
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Grid
Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems
—by Siegfried Heier, Rachel Waddington
(Translator)
Addresses technical, economic, and safety issues
inherent in the exploitation of wind power in
a competitive electricity market, focusing on
improved use of grid capacities and grid support
for fixed- and variable-speed controlled wind
power plants. Coverage includes electrical and
mechanical components of wind power plants, and
design, construction, and installation.
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Strengthening the Grid: Effect of High Temperature
Superconducting (Hts) Power Technologies on Reliability,
Power Transfer Capacity, and Energy Use
— by Howard C. Hayden; Paperback
The slow growth of power transmission systems
relative to the large growth in demand for power
has played a major role in higher electricity
prices and reduced reliability in a number of
areas across the United States in recent years.
This book evaluates the potential of high-temperature
superconducting (HTS) power technologies to address
existing problems with the U.S. electric power
transmission grid, especially problems with transmission
constraints. Among other findings, the authors
conclude that HTS underground cables provide an
attractive retrofit option for urban areas that
have existing underground transmission circuits
while avoiding the expense of new excavation to
increase capacity. When operated at high utilization,
HTS cables provide energy savings benefits as
compared with conventional cables or conventional
overhead lines per unit of power delivered. Whether
these energy savings benefits lead to life-cycle
cost savings depends on the cost of electricity
and, in the case of conventional overhead lines,
on siting constraints because overhead lines are
typically much cheaper to install than underground
cables. In addition, HTS cables can provide a
parallel transmission path at a lower voltage
to relieve high-voltage transmission constraints.
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