Please Recommend Books to Refer on SMART Grids

[roTTer]

Just as the title explains...I would like suggestions from you people on books or papers to refer to do a technical paper on SMART Grids...I will be starting my work from the basics...so would like to have a book that also concentrates on basics...and more importantly which is common or popular because I don’t have the resources to buy a book right now.

 

[berkeman]

Just as the title explains...I would like suggestions from you people on books or papers to refer to do a technical paper on SMART Grids...I will be starting my work from the basics...so would like to have a book that also concentrates on basics...and more importantly which is common or popular because I don’t have the resources to buy a book right now.

Here's an intro link. Not sure if there are any books already written on it yet -- it's pretty new:

http://www.echelon.com/solutions/smartgrid/

(Disclaimer -- I am employed by that company in the link)

 

[roTTer]

So if I want to start work any books related to it that may help me on this topic?

FYI : I’m doing Electrical & Electronics B.Tech 5 Semester, so you may have a certain idea about what subjects I have studied until now.

 

[ViewsofMars]

I'll just add onto berkeman's contribution.

The U.S. Department of Energy has “The Smart Grid”: An Introduction - Put it to Work.
http://www.oe.energy.gov/SmartGridIntroduction.htm

A very helpful pdf from that source:
http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/DOE_SG_Book_Single_Pages(1).pdf

Also, NATURE journal had a “News Feature” on January 6, 2010:
Smart grids: The energy storage problem
by David Lindley
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100106/full/463018a.html

Thanks roTTer and berkeman. You both have given me the opportunity to explore and learn about something new.