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Simões,
and Distributed Energy Systems ics”—Edison R.C. da Silva and Ma- and Siddharth Suryanarayanan
lik E. Elbuluk 14) “Advanced Electric Vehicles”—
Edited by 3) “Photovoltaic Power Electron- Giampaolo Carli, Arash Shafiei,
Sudipta ics”—Felix A. Farret and Sheldon S. Williamson
Chakraborty, 4) “Wind Power Generation”—Mohit 15) “Multi-Agent Technology for Pow-
Marcelo G. Simões, Singh, Eduard Muljadi, Vahan Gevor- er System Control”—Robin Roche,
and William gian, and Surya Santoso Fabrice Lauri, Benjamin Blunier,
E. Kramer 5) “Small Hydroelectric Systems”— Abdellatif Miraoui, and Abderraf
Springer-Verlag, Felix A. Farret, Marcelo G. Simões, ìâa Koukam.
London, 2013, and Ademar Michels All of the chapters are well written
609 pages, 6) “Fuel Cell System”—Fei Gao, and richly illustrated, and the material
ISBN: 978-1-4471-5103-6 (hardcover). Mohammad Kabalo, Marek S. is easy to read. A table of contents, hun-
Rylko, Benjamin Blunier, and Ab- dreds of references (presented in each
P
ower electronics play an impor- dellatif Miraoui chapter), and an index are also included.
tant role in the development of 7) “Variable-Speed Power Genera- Power Electronics for Renewable
modern smart grids as well as tion”—Wlodzimierz Koczara and and Distributed Energy Systems is a
renewable and distributed energy sys- Grzegorz Iwanski valuable tool for graduate research-
tems. Therefore, this new book edited 8) “Microturbines”—Stephen Gillette ers, practicing engineers, and sci-
and coauthored by a world-renowned and Mark Gilbreth entists working in renewable and
team of specialists in this area is a 9) “Battery Energy Storage Sys- distributed energy systems. The
great asset to industry. The editors tem”—Stan Atcitty, Jason Neely, book provides the needed technical
have invited key people from their re- David Ingersoll, Abbas Akhil, and background of each subject. There-
search area to share their perspective, Karen Waldrip fore, it is also suitable for senior
and the foreword is written by a lead- 10) “Fast Response Energy Storage undergraduates and master’s level
ing researcher in renewable energy Systems”—Juan M. Carrasco, Edu- students of electrical engineering
systems, Prof. Frede Blaabjerg from ardo Galván, Sergio Vázquez, Luis and power systems and faculty mem-
Aalborg University, Denmark. García-Tabarés, and Marcos Lafoz bers interested in modern power
The book Power Electronics for Re- 11) “Modular Power Electronics”—Su- electronic energy systems.
newable and Distributed Energy Sys- dipta Chakraborty
tems is divided into 15 chapters: 12) “Resource Aggregation Using Mi- —Marian P. Kazmierkowski
1) “Introduction”—Marcelo G. Simões crogrids”—Giri Venkataramanan Warsaw University of Technology,
and Sudipta Chakraborty and Sandeep Bala Poland
13) “Power Electronics for Smart Distri-
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2014.2322817 bution Grids”—Danilo I. Brandão, Re-
Date of publication: 19 June 2014 nata Carnieletto, Phuong H. Nguyen,