Technologies for the new millennium: Photovoltaics as a distributed resource

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1798-1801

  Kroposki, B ^a   DeBlasio, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Distributed resource; Grid connected; Photovoltaics; Standards; Utility interconnection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRICITY; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; POWER GENERATION; REDUNDANCY;

DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; POWER QUALITY;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 0038153956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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