chapter 1. Mission-critical cloud computing for critical infrastructures / Thoshitha Gamage, David Anderson, David Bakken, Kenneth Birman, Anjan Bose, Carl Hauser, Ketan Maheshwari, and Robbert van Renesse -- chapter 2. Power application possibilities with mission-critical cloud computing / David Bakken, Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian, Thoshitha Gamage, Santiago Grijalva, Kory W. Hedman, Yilu Liu, Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian, and Hao Zho -- chapter 3. Emerging wide-area power applications with mission-critical data delivery requirements / Greg Zweigle -- chapter 4. GridStat : high availability, low latency, and adaptive sensor data delivery for smart generation and transmission / David E. Bakken, Harald Gjermundr�d, and Ioanna Dionysiou -- chapter 5. A distributed framework for smart grid modeling, monitoring, and control / Alfredo Vaccaro and Eugenio Zimeo -- chapter 6. Role of PLC technology in smart grid communication networks / Angeliki M. Sarafi, Artemis C. Voulkidis, Spiros Livieratos, and Panayotis G. Cottis -- chapter 7. Power grid network analysis for smart grid applications / Zhifang Wang, Anna Scaglione, and Robert J. Thomas -- chapter 8. Open Source software, an enabling technology for smart grid evolution / Russell Robertson, Fred Elmendorf, and Shawn Williams -- chapter 9. Contribution of microgrids to the development of the smart grid / Tine L. Vandoorn and Lieven Vandevelde -- chapter 10. Microgrids / Mietek Glinkowski, Adam Guglielmo, Alexandre Oudalov, Gary Rackliffe, Bill Rose, Ernst Scholtz, Lokesh Verma, and Fang Yang -- chapter 11. Integrating consumer advance demand data in smart grid energy supply chain / Tongdan Jin, Chongqing Kang, and Heping Chen -- chapter 12. Photovoltaic energy generation and control for an autonomous shunt active power filter / Ayman Blorfan, Damien Flieller, Patrice Wira, Guy Sturtzer, and Jean Merckle -- chapter 13. Self-tuning and self-diagnosing simulation / Jin Ma -- chapter 14. A consensus-based fully distributed load management algorithm for smart grid / Yinliang Xu, Wei Zhang, and Wenxin Liu -- chapter 15. Expert systems application for the reconfiguration of electric distribution systems / Horacio Tovar-Hernandez and Guillermo Gutierrez-Alcaraz -- chapter 16. Load data cleansing and bus load coincidence factors / Wenyuan Li, Ke Wang, and Wijarn Wangdee -- chapter 17. Smart metering and infrastructure / Wenpeng Luan and Wenyuan Li -- chapter 18. Vision of future control centers in smart grids / Fangxing Li, Pei Zhang, Sarina Adhikari, Yanli Wei, and Qinran Hu.