Modern power systems are getting increasingly complex, due to increasing shares of intermittent renewable energy and distributed generation. Research requires computer simulation and modelling, and knowledge of methods and algorithms.
This book presents the main concepts of modelling and simulation of power systems and of their use for simulation-based design purposes. The book introduces the two main families of techniques for computer-based simulation of dynamic systems, and methods that allow parallel simulation execution. A review of different techniques for simulation under uncertainty is then provided. The importance, role and use of simulation and specification languages are presented. Concepts of phasor simulation, modelling and simulation of switching devices, and hardware-in-the-loop are covered, along with illustrated examples and exercises. Also offered is a set of simulation solvers implemented in C++, Matlab(R) and Python.
Antonello Monti is the professor-director at the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Prior to this, he worked at the University of South Carolina (USA), where he was associate director of the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) project on computational simulation and visualisation of modern power distribution. Since 2019 he has also a joined appointment at Fraunhofer FIT as part of the Center for Digital Energy Aachen.
Andrea Benigni is a full professor at RWTH-Aachen and director of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Energy Systems Engineering (IEK-10) at the Juelich research center, Germany. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Politecnico di Milano, Milano and the Ph.D. degree from RWTH-Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. From 2014 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.