Modified microgrid concept for rural electrification in Africa

2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blyden, Bai K ^a,b   Lee, Wei Jen ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Power Generation Group   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Microgrid; Pan Africa interconnection; Renewable energy; Rural electrification

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RURAL AREAS;

PAN-AFRICA INTERCONNECTION; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 35348853122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/pes.2006.1709540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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