Nighttime application of PV solar farm as STATCOM to regulate grid voltage

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 983-985

  Varma, Rajiv K ^a   Khadkikar, V ^a   Seethapathy, Ravi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS); Solar energy; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); Voltage regulation; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (FACTS); STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS; WIND ENERGY;

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; POWER CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; TRANSMISSIONS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 70749103555     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2031814     Document Type: Article

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