With the electric industry undergoing change, increased attention is being focused on power supply reliability and power quality. Power providers and users alike are concerned about reliable power, whether the focus is on interruptions and disturbances or extended outages. Monitoring can provide information about power flow and demand and help to identify the cause of power system disturbances....

This paper reports on new efforts in the modernization of the basic undergraduate courses and a graduate curriculum in electric power engineering. The main focus of the paper is the modernization of the way power engineering is portrayed to students. The motivation is the recognition of the new deregulated and restructured environment in power engineering and the broadening of the area in gener...

A scalable multi-agent paradigm is presented for control of distributed energy resources to achieve higher reliability, higher power quality, and more efficient (optimum) power generation and consumption A dynamic hybrid multi-agent system is proposed in this paper as a means to achieve scalability for control of a large network of power generation, transmission, load, and compensation sources....

Introduction The power quality of distribution systems has a drastic effect on power regulation and consumption. Johan Lundquist of the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteberg, Sweden put it best, stating “The phrase ‘power quality’ has been widely used during the last decade and includes all aspects of events in the system that deviates from normal operation.” This has been especially tr...

The widespread use of Power Electronics based equipment has produced a significant impact on quality of electric power supply. Conventional power quality mitigation equipment is providing to be inadequate for an increasing number of applications. One modern and very promising solution that deals with both load current and supply voltage imperfections is the Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UP...

Latest innovative ideas to make the life easier using the technology depends upon the application of power electronics in turn about power quality. With increasing quantities of non-linear loads being added to electrical systems, it has become necessary to establish criteria for limiting problems from system voltage degradation. This paper presents the power quality problems, issues, related in...

This paper presents the custom power devices to improve the power quality by using a Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM). Custom power is a technology driven product and service solution which embraces a family devices such as DSTATCOM. It describes the techniques of correcting the supply voltage sag in a distribution system by DSTATCOM. The steady state performance of system with or wit...