AC versus DC distribution systems-did we get it right?

2007 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hammerstrom, Donald J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dc power systems; Energy conversion; Energy management; Energy storage; Power distribution; Power distribution economics; Power supplies; Power system economics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER ELECTRONICS; TOPOLOGY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER DISTRIBUTION ECONOMICS; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; SYSTEM TOPOLOGIES;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42549128623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2007.386130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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