Interfacing renewable energy sources to the utility grid using a three-level inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1504-1511

  Alepuz, Salvador ^a   Busquets Monge, Sergio ^a   Bordonau, Josep ^a   Gago, Javier ^a   González, David ^a   Balcells, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed power generation; Grid interface; Multilevel conversion; Multivariable control; Photovoltaic power system; Three level inverter; Wind power system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; GRID INTERFACE; MULTILEVEL CONVERSION;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 33750133165     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.882021     Document Type: Article

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