Preface to Part IV Energy, Smart Grid Design and Infrastructure

Growth in energy consumption, environmental concerns, limitations of currently available resources and National policies have propelled research geared toward new or improved energy systems, energy systems design and optimization strategies to enable energy infrastructure optimization, environmental friendliness, quality of delivered power to the end-user, resiliency to attacks (cyber-attacks, terrorist, natural disasters, etc.), and innovation through the creation of new products, services and energy markets. This requires the development of novel methodologies, processes, technologies together with new governance models (e.g., regulatory framework) to improve current energy systems and realize complex integrated energy grids.