The first edition of the book “Apuntes de Sistemas Eléctricos de Potencia,” by Professor Walter Brokering, was published in 1978. In 2008, an updated reissue was released, “Ñom Lüfke, o el Rayo Domado,” which Brokering co-authored with two other professors from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile, Dr. Luis Vargas and Dr. Rodrigo Palma Behnke, director of SERC Chile.
Now, the third version has just been launched, adapted and updated, with a title consistent with the new reality: “Atrapando el Sol en los sistemas eléctricos de potencia,” by Walter Brokering and Rodrigo Palma Behnke. It is a free, interactive web platform aimed at assisting the education of hundreds of Electrical Engineering students in Latin America, as has been the case for hundreds of others who have used this text, known as “the Brokering,” for years. The platform's address is sepsolar.centroenergia.cl
The book contains approximately 535 figures and illustrations, about 65 tables with practical background, as well as solved numerical examples.
The authors emphasize, among the reasons for the third edition, that there are few texts in Spanish applied to our realities that facilitate university teaching and enhance the training of new professionals, allowing them to overcome the existing dissociation between the theoretical criteria with which Power Systems (SEP) should be planned and operated and the practical reality in which Competitive Electricity Markets (MEC) operate.
“The aim of this text” –the preface states– is “to remind all those interested in power systems of their basic characteristics and the physical and economic rules that govern their behavior, in order to respect and consider them appropriately in the planning of new facilities and the operation of existing ones; and, on the other hand, to present the foundations of the economic theory intended for application to a sector that constitutes a natural monopoly and exchanges many products with dissimilar marketing (active and reactive power, during peak and off-peak hours; energy; management of reservoirs of different capacities; frequency regulation; availability; reserve and mutual support; etc., etc.), a theory that is to some extent evolving, and where it is clear that a text presenting it adequately is missing.”
The website brings together multimedia applications that help deepen the knowledge presented in the various chapters and incorporates an unrestricted version of the DeepEdit software for power system (SEP) simulations, which includes the grids of several countries such as Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina.
The team that worked on the book: Rodrigo Palma, Walter Brokering, Bárbara Blanco, Danny Espín, Frank Leañez
