TY - CHAP AU - Alfredo Vaccaro AU - Antonio Pepiciello AU - Ahmed Faheem Zobaa ED - Alfredo Vaccaro ED - Ahmed Faheem Zobaa ED - Prabhakar Karthikeyan Shanmugam ED - Kannaiah Sathish Kumar Y1 - 2020-01-15 PY - 2020 T1 - Introductory Chapter: Open Problems and Enabling Methodologies for Smart Grids N2 - This book introduces the most promising enabling technologies and methodologies for smart grids. It not only focuses on technological breakthroughs and roadmaps in implementing these technologies, but also presents the much-needed sharing of best practices, demonstrating the potential role of smart grid functions in improving the technical, economic, and environmental performance of modern power distribution systems. This can be achieved by allowing for massive pervasion of dispersed generating units, increasing the hosting capacity of renewable power generators, reducing active power losses and atmospheric emissions, and improving system flexibility. BT - Research Trends and Challenges in Smart Grids SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86496 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.86496 SN - 978-1-78923-892-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -