Wide area monitoring, protection and control systems (WAMPACs) have been recognized as the most promising enabling technologies to meet the challenges of modern electric power transmission systems. This book provides an overview of this emerging technology.

• Chapter 1: Wide area measurement system: the enabler for smarter transmission grids


• Chapter 2: Reliability-based substation monitoring systems placement


• Chapter 3: System integrity protection scheme based on PMU technology


• Chapter 4: New methodologies for large-scale power system dynamic analysis


• Chapter 5: A fuzzy-based data mining paradigm for on-line optimal power flow analysis


• Chapter 6: False data injection attacks and countermeasures for wide area measurement system