VFT operational overview -the Laredo project

2007 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pratico, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Wegner, Carl ^b   Larsen, Einar V ^a,b   Piwko, Richard J ^a,b   Wallace, Daniel R ^b   Kidd, David ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b GE ENERGY   (United States)

^c AEP   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous; Back to back HVDC; Black start; Interconnection; Power transmission; Reactive power control; Tie flow regulation; VFT

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

BACK TO BACK HVDC; BLACK STARTS; TIE FLOW REGULATIONS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER (VFT);

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 42549156039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2007.386187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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