I gratefully acknowledge the efforts of my teachers during many years of my schooling and beyond those. The list includes but is not limited to Dr. V. Tahani, Dr. M. Mahzoon, Dr. M. Binaye-Motlagh, Dr. H. Zangeneh, Dr. H. Alavi, Dr. S. Gazor, Dr. A. Bakhshai, Dr. P. Jain, Dr. R. Iravani, and Dr. B.T. Ooi.

I acknowledge great colleagues whom I enjoyed working with during joint research works on integration of distributed and renewable energy systems specially and foremost Dr. S.A. Khajehoddin and Dr. H. Karimi among others. I acknowledge the contribution of many graduate students including Dr. R. Sharma (who also kindly helped improve a lot of drawings in the book), Dr. P. Piya, Dr. S. Silwal, Dr. T. Qunais, Dr. M. Ebrahimi, Mr. A. Zakerian, and others.

I am grateful for the support provided at MSU particularly by our department heads, Dr. Nicolas H. Younan and Dr. Smaee U. Khan, the ECE office staff, the dean Dr. Jason Keith, and the associate dean Dr. Kari Babski-Reeves.

Last but not the least, I am highly indebted to my parents for their care, love, and affection during all my life. I am grateful for having several wonderful siblings who keep to make my personal life pleasant with their love, generosity, and sacrifice. I am grateful to my beloved wife and my cheerful son who allowed me to spend a lot of our shared family time to work on completing this book.