Renewable Energy Optimization, Planning and Control

Dr. Anita Khosla is presently working as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, University, Faridabad. She has rich experience of 27 years in teaching. She did her B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, and Ph.D. in Control Systems (Electrical Engineering) from MRIIRS. She has guided 04 Ph.D. scholars and guiding 06 at present. She is Fellow IE(I), Senior Member IEEE, and Life Member of ISTE, India. She is Author of three books. She has attended and organized many workshops, FDPs, and seminars. She has also been Session Speaker in many conferences. She is Editor of two books Renewable Energy Optimization, Planning and Control & Smart Structures in Energy Infrastructure published by Springer which are proceedings of ICRTE 2021. She has published more than 50 research papers in national and international journals of high repute and conferences. She is instrumental in setting up of Authorized Training Centre for Automation in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric India and is Director for the same. Prof. Dr. Mohan Lal Kolhe is Full Professor in smart grid and renewable energy at the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the University of Agder (Norway). He is Leading Renewable Energy Technologist with three decades of academic experience at the international level and previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities, e.g., University College London (UK/Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. In addition, he was Member of the Government of South Australia’s first Renewable Energy Board (2009-2011) and worked on developing renewable energy policies. Due to his enormous academic contributions to sustainable energy systems, he has been offered the posts of Vice-Chancellor of Homi Bhabha State University Mumbai (Cluster University of Maharashtra Government, India) and Full Professorship(s)/Chair(s) in ‘sustainable engineering technologies/systems’ and ‘smart grid’ from the Teesside University (UK) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), respectively. He is Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Energy. His research works in energy systems have been recognized within the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University’s 2020, 2021 matrix. He is Internationally Recognized Pioneer in energy field, whose top 10 published works have an average of over 175 citations each.

• Chapter 1. A Socio Inspired Technique in Nuclear Power Plant for Load Frequency Control by using Cohort Intelligence Optimization-based PID Controller.- Chapter 2. Seamless and smooth power sharing, voltage and frequency Control of Islanded Microgrid with Droop cum Supervisory Controller.- Chapter 3. Genetic Algorithm for Economic Load Dispatchwith Microgrid to Save Environment by reduction of CO2 Emission.- Chapter 4. An Electric Vehicle Integration in Distributed Generation with an Island Detection Technique to Meet Critical Load and Non-Critical Load.- Chapter 5. Green Communications: A Review of the Current Situation.- Chapter 6. PV System Design and Solar Generation Implementation.- Chapter 7. CoviDistBand: IoT-based wearable smart band to ensure social distancing.- Chapter 8. Gesture Recognition Glove for Speech and Hearing Impaired people.- Chapter 9. Simulation and Analysis of Rural Energy Systems Based on MultiCriteria Decision Making Methods.- Chapter 10. Assessment of Sessional Solar Energy Using PVsyst and SAM.- Chapter 11. Power Generation using Municipal Solid Waste : A Review.- Chapter 12. Solar Power Probabilistic Prediction Using Random Forest Regressor.- Chapter 13. Impact of COVID-19 on Renewable Power Generation in India.- Chapter 14. Reference Model Design, Control and Reliability Analysis of PV Emulator.- Chapter 15. Smart Technologies in Indian Environment- A Critical review.