Smart Grids

Stuart Borlase has extensive experience in strategic solution sales and global business growth in the energy and utility industry. Stuart’s experience has included a series of progressively more influential positions with Schneider Electric, General Electric, Siemens, and Wipro Technologies, in both the Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) areas of smart grid modernization and business transformation.Stuart received his B.Sc.Eng. (Power Engineering) degree from the University of Natal in South Africa, and his M.Eng. (Power Engineering) and D.Eng. (Power Engineering and Business) degrees from Texas A&M University. Stuart is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary) and Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary) societies. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer. Stuart is also a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt.Stuart has published and presented numerous papers on smart grid and grid modernization. He is a co-author of the Role of Substations in Smart Grids chapter for the book, Electric Power Substations Engineering, Third Edition, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2012. Stuart is the Editor-in-Chief and co-author of the first edition of this book, which was published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2012.

• Overview of the Electric Utility Industry. Smart Grid Challenges and Transformations. Smart Energy Resources: Supply and Demand. Communications Systems. Real-Time Grid Management. Advanced Protection and Control for the Smart Grid. Automatic Restoration Systems and Outage Management. Volt/VAr Optimization. Monitoring and Diagnostics. Asset Management. Geospatial Technologies. Mobile Workforce Management. Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Convergence of Technologies and IT/OT Integration. Data Analytics for the Smart Grid. High-Performance Computing for Advanced Smart Grid Applications. Cybersecurity for the Smart Grid. FACTS and HVDC. Microgrids. The Dynamics of Wholesale and Distributed Energy Markets. Transactive Energy. Smart Grid Standardization Work. The Smart Grid IoT. Smart Cities. Refining a Holistic View of Grid Modernization.

"It is a great introduction to the Smart Grid, both knowledge and its practice."— Xiaolin Ge, Black & Veatch, USA"The first two chapters of this second edition provide an accurate history of how electric grid modernization has progressed in the last 10 – 15 years and lay out the current challenges and opportunities that customers, utilities, regulators, and new entrants to the electric supply and delivery industry are facing. It is helpful that economic, political, policy and business drivers for the changes have been explained."— Tom Weaver, American Electric Power, USA