Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control Systems

Alfredo Vaccaro is an Associate Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy. His special fields of interest include soft computing and interval-based method applied to power system analysis, and advanced control architectures for diagnostic and protection of distribution networks. Prof. Vaccaro is a member of the Editorial Boards of IET Renewable Power Generation, and the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, and he is the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology.Ahmed Faheem Zobaa is a Senior Lecturer in power systems, an MSc Course Director and a Full Member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London, UK. His main areas of expertise are power quality, (marine) renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, and lighting applications. Dr. Zobaa is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology and Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy.

• Chapter 1: Wide area measurement system: the enabler for smarter transmission gridsChapter 2: Reliability-based substation monitoring systems placementChapter 3: System integrity protection scheme based on PMU technologyChapter 4: New methodologies for large-scale power system dynamic analysisChapter 5: A fuzzy-based data mining paradigm for on-line optimal power flow analysisChapter 6: False data injection attacks and countermeasures for wide area measurement system