Wind Energy Operation and Control

Dr. Baseem Khan received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, India, in 2008, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He is currently a Faculty Member at Hawassa University, Ethiopia, and Senior Member of the IEEE. He has published more than 125 research articles in indexed journals, and has authored and edited several books with international publishers. Dr. Khan’s research interests include power system restructuring, power system planning, smart grid technologies, meta-heuristic optimization techniques, reliability analysis of renewable energy systems, power quality analysis, and renewable energy integration. Dr. Salah Kamel received his Ph.D. from the University of Jaén, Spain (Main), and Aalborg University, Denmark (Host), in January 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt, where he is also a Leader of the Advanced Power Systems Research Laboratory (APSR Laboratory), Power Systems Research Group. His research areas include power system analysis and optimization, smart grid, and renewable energy systems. Francisco Jurado has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaén, Spain, since 1985. His current research interests include power systems, modeling, and renewable energy. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Part 1: Basics and general introduction
1. Introduction to wind power generation and dynamics.
2. Types of wind energy generation
3. Trends in wind technology: Installation trends, technology trends, performance trends, cost trends

Part 2: Different types of wind energy generation technologies, issues, and developments
4. Technical barriers associated with wind energy generation
5. Offshore and onshore wind generation: Basics, issues, and developments
6. Distributed wind generation: Basics, issues, and development
7. Land-based wind generation: Basics, issues and development
8: Offshore wind, current status, perspectives, and challenges

Part 3: Wind energy generation system development, operation and control issues with solution techniques
9. Wind energy potential prediction using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques
10: Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for wind energy operation and control problems
11: Resource assessment and characterization of wind energy generation systems
12: Next-generation wind technology
13: Testing and certification for wind energy generation circuitry
14: Developments in grid integration of wind energy generation systems and coordination
15: Optimization of wind energy generation and associated issues
16: Energy management in wind energy generation systems
17: Flexibility enhancement in wind energy generation systems
18: Developments in protection schemes in wind energy generation systems

Part 4: Impacts of wind energy
19: Environmental impacts and siting of wind projects
20: Negative impacts of wind power generation on the main power grid and controlling
21: Impact of high wind penetration on power grid Part 5: Modeling and development of wind energy projects
22: Simulation codes and design tools for wind energy generation systems
23: Development of wind energy projects, planning, optimization layouts, and barriers
24: Conclusion: Wind energy operation and control