Organic architecture for small- to large-scale photovoltaic power stations

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4332-4343

  Rodriguez, Cuauhtemoc ^a   Bishop, Justin D K ^b,c  

^a Cambridge Consultants Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic (PV) power systems; Power generation; Reconfigurable architectures

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE ENERGY; BUILDING BLOCKES; CARBON EMISSIONS; ENERGY SUPPLIES; HIGH QUALITY; LARGE-SCALE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER STATION; LOW COSTS; OPTIMUM SWITCHING; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) POWER SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; POWER MARKETS; POWER UNITS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; RENEWABLES; STORAGE COMPONENT; SYSTEM CONTROL; TRANSMISSION GRIDS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 70350405677     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2023642     Document Type: Article

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