Energy 4.0: Trends, Challenges, and Applications

The text provides insight into renewable technologies, and their challenges in terms of design, efficiency, implementation, and solutions to mitigate the problem of energy crisis. It will help the readers to understand the role of the fourth industrial revolution technologies in developing user-friendly, economic, and implementable solutions to mitigate the present and future energy crisis through cleaner and renewable technologies. Discusses electric energy transportation systems, electricity distribution systems, demand response, metering, smart grids, and cyber-security. Covers electric vehicles, vehicle-to-grid technologies, charging-while-driving technology for future roads and highways, and autonomous mobile robots. Presents data-driven modeling, forecasting, and optimization techniques of power and energy systems. Illustrates energy storage technologies, energy-efficient systems, power conversion topologies, and related control techniques. Explains the design of control algorithms for solar systems and the design of efficient energy management for solar power. The text is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, energy, environmental engineering, computer science, and engineering.