Frede Blaabjerg was at ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Ph.D. Student with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications (such as in wind turbines), PV systems, reliability, harmonics, and adjustable speed drives. He has received 17 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014 and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014. Professor Blaabjerg was an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011. In 2014, he was nominated by Thomson Reuters to be one of the 250 most cited researchers in Engineering in the world. Professor Blaabjerg has published more than 300 journal publications in the field.

Dan M. Ionel is Professor of Electrical Engineering and the L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power at University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. He previously worked in industry, most recently as Chief Engineer for Regal Beloit Corp., and, before that, as the Chief Scientist for Vestas Wind Turbines. Concurrently with his industrial appointments, Professor Ionel also served as Visiting and Research Professor at University of Wisconsin and Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. He contributed to technology developments with long lasting industrial impact, including US' most successful range of PM motor drives and the world's most powerful wind turbine. He published more than one hundred and fifty technical papers, including three winners of IEEE Best Paper Awards, and holds more than thirty patents, including a medal winner at the Geneva Invention Fair. An IEEE Fellow, he was the inaugural Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems Committee, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and Technical Program Chair for IEEE ECCE 2015. He is the General Chair of the IEEE 2017 IEMDC Conference and the Editor-in-Chief of the Electric Power Components and Systems Journal.

Preface

Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1 Renewable Energy Systems: Technology Overview and Perspectives

Chapter 2 Solar Power Sources: PV, Concentrated PV, and Concentrated Solar Power

Chapter 3 Overview of Single-Phase Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems

Chapter 4 Three-Phase Photovoltaic Systems: Structures, Topologies, and Control

Chapter 5 Overview of Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Photovoltaic Energy Production Systems

Chapter 6 Design of Residential Photovoltaic Systems

Chapter 7 Small Wind Energy Systems

Chapter 8 Power Electronics and Controls for Large Wind Turbines and Wind Farms

Chapter 9 Electric Generators and their Control for Large Wind Turbines

Chapter 10 Design Considerations for Wind Turbine Systems

Chapter 11 Marine and Hydrokinetic Power Generation and Power Plants

Chapter 12 Power Conversion and Control for Fuel Cell Systems in Transportation and Stationary Power Generation

Chapter 13 Batteries and Ultracapacitors for Electric Power Systems with Renewable Energy Sources

Chapter 14 Microgrid for High-Surety Power: Architectures, Controls, Protection, and Demonstration

Index

This book focuses on renewable generation technology and provides a detailed overview of the state-of-the-art technology today, while exploring possibilities for the future. Written by leading experts in the field of power electronics, this book covers a broad range of renewable energy topics such as fuel cells, wave energy, batteries, and their integration into a microgrid. Two simulation projects are available on PV and wind generators, with models in MATLAB and Simulink, which will allow the reader to design for installation both a PV and small scale wind turbine system.