Advances in Renewable Energy and Its Grid Integration

Smart Algorithm for Optimal Energy Utilization in EV Charging Stations.- Real Power loss Minimisation and Energy Cost Saving with DG and Capacitor using JAYA Algorithm in Radial Distribution System.- Design and Analysis of a Grid-connected Solar Photo-voltaic (SPV) Power Plant of 10 kW.- Fault Classification of Dry Type Transformer using Pattern Recognition Neural Network.- Design and Development of Emulated Fuel Cell Based Hierarchical Controlled DC Microgrid System.- Development of Integrated Test Set for SoC-SoH Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery.- A Novel Hybrid Islanding Detection Technique in Multi DG Microgrid System.- Life Cycle Assessment of a Hybrid Solar based Electric Vehicle Charging Station using SimaPro.- Potential Assessment for Repowering of Solar Projects in India.- Modelling and Economic Optimization of Residential Load Based Microgrid in HOMER Pro by Dispatch Strategy.- Conductance Factor-Based Control of Solar Photo-Voltaic fed Shunt Active Power Filter.- Machine Learning Based Prediction of Solar Power Plant Performance under the Impact of Natural Dust Accumulation.- Application of Neural Networks in Reliability Evaluation of Distribution Networks Integrated with Distributed Generation.- Feasibility Assessment of the Smart Grid in Uganda.- Two Stage Boost Inverter for Wave Energy Conversion.

Suryanarayana Doolla is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he teaches and directs research in power electronics and power systems as a faculty member of the Energy Science and Engineering Department. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Nagarjuna University in 2000, M.Tech. degree in Energy Systems Engineering from IIT Bombay, and Ph.D. degrees in Power Systems from IIT Delhi, India, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He was with Power Research and Development Consultants (2009), Bangalore, and Machine 2 Machine (2006-2008), Hyderabad, before joining IIT Bombay.

Dr. Zakir Hussain Rather is an electrical engineer by training, with Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has been working in renewable energy (RE) and electric mobility sector for past 12 years, with around 4 years of RE industry experience in Europe. He, in close collaboration with the Danish National transmission systemoperator, Energinet.dk, has extensively worked on the Danish grid. He is currently working as an associate professor with the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where the focus of his work continues to be on grid integration of renewables, grid integration of Electric Vehicles (EVs), power system operation under high penetration of renewable generation and EVs. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, editor of IETE Technical Review, guest editor of International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Smart Grid Community, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and Danish Smart Grid Research Forum. He is also involved in various BIS committees on EV charging infrastructure. His areas of research interest include grid and system integration of wind and solar power, power system dynamics, EV charging infrastructure and EV grid integration, smart and