This comprehensive textbook introduces electrical engineering students and engineers to the most relevant concepts and techniques relating to all dimensions of electrical power system planning, operation and control. With an emphasis on both basics and advanced topics and practical aspects, the topics are substantiated by a number of illustrations and computer programs that reinforce the analytical methods of approaches to operation and control problems of power system engineering.

Besides fundamentals of power systems, the readers can learn about power flow, economic considerations, computer-aided economic load despatch, power system stability, fault analysis, high voltage transmission systems, transient analysis, and much more from this systematic treatment of an exhaustive treatise on power system engineering.

The book is designed to cover courses in Power Systems conducted during third and fourth years of study by senior undergraduate students and to cover courses prescribed for postgraduate students as well.

The third edition includes the following eight new chapters to make the book complete from all angles of fundamental and advanced topics.

Transmission Line Parameters (Chapter 2)

Steady State Performance and Operation of Transmission Lines (Chapter 3)

Power Cables (Chapter 4)

Line Insulators (Chapter 5)

Mechanical Design of Overhead Lines (Chapter 6)

Corona (Chapter 7)

EHV AC and HVDC Power Transmission (Chapter 17)

Transient Analysis of Transmission Lines: Wave Propagation (Chapter 23)About the Author

Abhijit Chakrabarti [PhD (Tech)] is Vice-Chairman, West Bengal State Council of Higher Education and Professor and Former Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah. He has also been Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University.
A Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), he has published/presented 123 research papers in international and national journals and conferences and authored/co-authored ten books on electrical engineering. He has nearly eight years of industrial experience and around twenty years of teaching and research experience.
Professor Chakrabarti is a recipient of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya award, and the power medal, merit and best paper awards (twice) from Central Electricity Authority, India. His areas of interest include power system and electric circuits.