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PrefaceThe revised and updated version of the original Real-Time Stability in Power Systems is most timely, given the myriad changes in the electric power industry and the significant technology advances in computing, control and communications fields since its initial publication. Dr. Savulescu and his hand-picked group of experts have accomplished an impressive effort to provide in a single tome a comprehensive treatment of the power system real-time stability assessment area.While the physics of the power systems has not changed in the liberalized, competitive electricity market environment, within which they operate, the decision making process has undergone major transfo...
