IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - March/April 2021 - 93

book reviews

fundamental references
infrastructure asset and renewable energy

THIS ISSUE'S " BOOK REVIEWS "
column offers two reviews. The first
discusses Infrastructure Asset Management With Power System Applications, written by Lina Bertling Tjernberg. The reviewer writes, " This book
is a solid contribution to the state-ofthe-art asset management application
to electric power systems. " The second
reviews Renewable Energy Technologies and Resources, written by Nader
Anani. The reviewer writes, " This
book is a welcome addition to the literature on renewable energy modeling,
computation, and integration. "

Infrastructure Asset
Management With Power
System Applications
By Lina Bertling Tjernberg
This book provides detailed highlights of
infrastructure asset management issues.
It is written by Dr. Lina Bertling Tjernberg, a professor in power grid technology at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, the
Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Bertling Tjernberg points out
that infrastructure asset management
can be expressed as a combination of
managerial, financial, economic, and
engineering concepts applied to physical assets. Infrastructure asset management is a wide field that covers different
expertise areas. It includes the whole
lifecycle of an asset: design, construction, commission, operation, mainteDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2020.3043664
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nance, modification, decommissioning, and disposal. There are budget
constraints, which result in the need
for a strategy for asset management.
The electric power system is a massive infrastructure to manage the supply
of electricity from generation to consumption. The electric power system
is undergoing a major reconstruction,
which is captured in the concept of a
smart grid. The main drivers are higher
reliability, climate change, and customer
participation in sustainable energy. This
book provides readers with knowledge
of the terminology and theory used. It
provides different analysis tools and examples to use for electric power system
applications.

The book focuses on energy infrastructure asset management. It shows
systematic techniques, such as reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and
reliability-centered asset maintenance
(RCAM). These are used to achieve
infrastr ucture asset management
strategies. The RCM method focuses
on maintenance plans' reliability aspects. Maintenance and reliability
are large costs not only as maintenance tasks but also as production and
breakdowns costs. Breakdown consequences affect the environment and/or
personal safety. The RCAM method
combines RCM with maintenance-optimization techniques. Merging these
approaches provides an instrument
for maintenance strategy assessment
and comparisons.
The author eloquently presents that
new technology developments provide
enhanced solutions for asset management. One new general trend is control
and operation with phasor measurement units located in transmission
grids or with smart meters placed at
consumer sites to enable the integration of distributed resources with distributed energy-use control. Another
trend is the development of diagnostic
measurement techniques for assessing
insulation conditions, lifetime predictions of assets, and sensor network condition monitoring. These trends have
the common goal to access and handle
large volumes of data (i.e., big data).
The book introduces reliability and
maintenance, including equipment
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