Smart Grids from a Global Perspective

Foreword.- Introduction.- HowEnergy Distribution will Change: an ICT Perspective.- Smart Business for SmartUsers: a Social Agenda for Developing Smart Grids.- Behavioral Aspects of SmartGrids.- What are Smart Grids? Epistemology, Interdisciplinarity and GettingThings Done.- Cyber-Security Vulnerabilities: an Impediment against FurtherDevelopment of Smart Grid.- The Optimal Control Problem in Smart Energy Grids.-Economic Regulation of the Energy Market.- Frequency Regulation in Power Gridsby Optimal Load and Generation Control.- Charging Electric Vehicles in the SmartGrid.- Demand Side and Dispatchable Power Plants with Electric Mobility.- PrivacyIssues in the Use of Smart Meters - Law Enforcement Use of Smart Meter Data.- Conductinga Smarter Grid: Reflecting in the Power and Security behind Smart Grids withFoucault.- Emerging e-Practices, Information Flows and the Home: a(Sociological) Research Agenda on Smart Energy Systems.- Smart Grid PilotProjects and Implementationin the Field.- Energy Efficiency in a MobileWorld.- End User Research in Power Matching City II.

Jacquelien Scherpen's work has made a major mark in the area of model order reduction and physics-based control methods for complex nonlinear system. She combines new insights on both modeling and stabilization of nonlinear networks, including ground-breaking work on model reduction and complexity handling based on power and energy methods for control. More recently, she has developed these methods in the context of smart grid applications, resulting in a compelling demonstration of the value of applied mathematics for solving issues raised by smart grids. Her current work spans complexity reduction methods for control of distributed systems, energy- and power-based control methods for distributed systems, and distributed optimal control methods via pricing mechanisms. This unique combination promises to make important contributions to the theoretical developments in the field of systems and control, as well as to industrial, robotics, power systems, and smart grid applications. Professor Scherpen was recently promoted to a top-level professorship. As Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology and Management, she leads a team of outstanding researchers, several of whom are award-winning talents.Anne Beaulieu is project manager of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Programme and research coordinator of the Energy Academy Europe. She joined the University of Groningen following several years as senior research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where she also acted as deputy programme leader of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences  between 2005 and 2010. Before that, she obtained a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (2000) and in 1999, she was appointed Lecturer in Science, Culture and Communication, in Bath, UK. Her work at GESP is well served by her interdisciplinary background in the humanities and social sciences (McGill University 1992, 1994). Beaulieu has been amember of the