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THIS ISSUE'S "BOOK REVIEW"
column discusses Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control, by
Joe H. Chow and Juan J. Sanchez-Gasca. The reviewer says that it is "a welcome addition to the body of literature
on power system modeling, computation, and control."

Power System Modeling,
Computation, and Control
By Joe H. Chow and
Juan J. Sanchez-Gasca
Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control (Wiley-IEEE Press,
2020) is designed to make the advanced topics of modeling, computation, and control more accessible to
graduate students, power engineers,
and control design professionals. The
initial use of this text was for teaching
a two-course sequence on the topics at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an
evolution to the use of the well-known
text Power System Stability and Control, by Dr. Prabha Kundur. The new
text offering chapters that address flexible ac transmission systems and windturbine-generator technology.
The authors of Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control have
more than 40 years of experience working in power systems, were colleagues
at General Electric Company, and have
been long-time collaborators within
the IEEE Power & Energy Society's
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2020.3014544
Date of current version: 16 October 2020

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Power System Dynamic Performance
Committee and its various subcommittees, working groups, and task forces.
The organization and material in
this text reflect the preferences of the
authors for 1) the topics covered, 2)
the depth of the material included for
each topic, and 3) how the material is
explained. In the Preface, the authors
describe their contribution as "In addition to being a modeling and control
book, it is also a systems and computation book." A distinctive feature of
this text is that most of the topics are
illustrated with detailed numerical examples. The depth of their respective
industry experience is clearly shown
throughout the nearly 600-page treatment of the topics.

The text is organized into three
parts after a brief Introductory chapter:
✔✔ Part I: System Concepts
* Steady-State Power Flow
* Steady-State Voltage Stability
Analysis
* Power System Dynamics and
Simulations
* Direct Transient Stability Analysis
* Linear Analysis and SmallSignal Stability.
✔✔ Part II: Synchronous Machine
Models and Their Control
* Steady-State Models and Operation of Synchronous Machines
* Dynamic Models of Synchronous Machines
* Excitations Systems
* Power System Stabilizers
* Load and Induction Motor
Models
* Turbine-Governor Models and
Frequency Control.
✔✔ Part III: Advanced Power System Topics
* High-Voltage Direct Current
Transmission Systems
* Flexible AC Transmission Systems
* Wind Power Generations and
Modeling
* Power System Coherency and
Model Reduction.
The book offers a comprehensive list
of 243 references and a thorough index
as well as color versions of key figures.
Each chapter ends with a set of problems, totaling 155 for the entire book.
(continued on p. 111)
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