Title :
Microgrids for enhancing the economics, reliability, and resilience of smart cities ??? An IIT experience
Author :
Shahidehpour, Mohammad
Author_Institution :
Galvin Center for Electr. Innovation, Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
The IIT Microgrid project started in August 2008 and the majority of the project was completed in May 2013. Thus, we have chosen June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009 as the base year and June 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014 as the current year for the purpose of reporting the results in this study.
Keywords :
distributed power generation; power generation economics; power generation reliability; smart cities; IIT experience; economic enhancement; microgrid project; reliability enhancement; resilience enhancement; smart cities; Economics; Microgrids; Power system reliability; Real-time systems; Reliability; Resilience; Substations;
Conference_Titel :
Smart Grid Conference (SGC), 2014
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8313-1
DOI :
10.1109/SGC.2014.7090868
