The use of advanced technologies is enabling the transformation of power grids to intelligent smart grids with real-time control and monitoring and integration of distributed renewable generation. With the development of phasor measurement units (PMUs) and the availability of real-time measurements, it has become possible to develop different power system applications to enhance stability and perform state estimation, load estimation, power network protection, and wide-area security assessment and reliability of the power grid.

• Chapter 1: Synchrophasors for improving the performance of power grid
• Chapter 2: An optimal reliability criterion (ORC) index for optimal placement of phasor measurement units (PMU) for full observability of power grid
• Chapter 3: Secured relaying using synchronised data
• Chapter 4: Synchrophasor-assisted visualization and protection of power systems
• Chapter 5: Using PMU measurements for enhanced power grid monitoring and protection
• Chapter 6: Micro-phasor measurement unit-based energy management system
• Chapter 7: A resilient framework to facilitate seamless ancillary power support in a microgrid cluster
• Chapter 8: PMU-based vulnerability assessment of power systems
• Chapter 9: Synchrophasor applications for load and generator parameter estimation
• Chapter 10: State estimation in the presence of synchronized measurement
• Chapter 11: PMU-based wide-area security assessment
• Chapter 12: Cyber-physical attack detection approaches in the wide-area measurement system