UNIFLEX-PM - A key-enabling technology for future European electricity networks

EPE Journal (European Power Electronics and Drives Journal)

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 6-16

  Lov, Florin ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a   Clare, Jon ^b   Wheeler, Pat ^b   Rufer, Alfred ^c   Hyde, Andrew ^d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d AREVA T&D   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Energy management; Grid integration; Power converters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; GREEN POWER; GRID CONNECTIONS; GRID INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT POWER; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; POWER FLOWS; RENEWABLE POWER; RENEWABLE SOURCES;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 77949417086     PISSN: 09398368     EISSN: 23769319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09398368.2009.11463732     Document Type: Article

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