Power Quality Indices in Liberalized Markets

Pierluigi Caramia is associate professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Napoli ‘Parthenope’ (Italy). He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cassino in 1991. His research interests concern power system analysis and power quality. In addition, he is a co-author of Chapter 8 and Chapter 11 of the book Time-Varying Waveform Distortions in Power Systems, published by John Wiley & Sons. He participates in the CIGRE and IEEE Working Group activities on power quality.

Guido Carpinelli is a full professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’ (Italy). He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli in 1978. His research interests concern electrical power quality and power system analysis. He is the author of several papers in journals published by IEEE, IEE, IET and Elsevier. In addition, he is a co-author of Chapter 8 and Chapter 11 of the book Time-Varying Waveform Distortions in Power Systems, published by John Wiley & Sons. He participates in the CIGRE and IEEE Working Group activities on power quality.

Paola Verde is a full professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Cassino (Italy). She received her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’ in 1988. Her research interests concern power quality and power electronics in power systems. She is the author of several papers in journals published by IEEE, IEE, IET and Elsevier. In addition, she is a co-author of Chapter 8 and Chapter 11 of the book Time-Varying Waveform Distortions in Power Systems, published by John Wiley & Sons. She participates in the CIGRE and IEEE Working Group activities on power quality.