Impacts of grid-connected photovoltaic plant operation on the harmonic distortion

Proceedings of the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 861-864

  Batrinu, Florentin ^a   Chicco, Gianfranco ^a   Schlabbach, Jürgen ^b   Spertino, Filippo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Harmonic distortion; Multistring converter; Photovoltaic plants; Power quality; Shading effect

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; HEAT SHIELDING; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; POWER QUALITY; SOLAR RADIATION;

MULTISTRING CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PLANTS; SHADING EFFECTS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 34047107133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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