Clustered PV inverters in LV networks: An overview of impacts and comparison of voltage control strategies

2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference, EPEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Demirok, Erhan ^a   Sera, Dezso ^a   Teodorescu, Remus ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^b   Borup, U ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG); LV network; Power curtailment; PV inverter; Reactive power control; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; GRID STABILITY; GRID VOLTAGE; LOW-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; LV NETWORKS; MULTIPLE INVERTERS; PENETRATION LEVEL; POWER INJECTION; PSCAD/EMTDC; PV INVERTER; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; VOLTAGE RISE; VOLTAGE STABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; GALERKIN METHODS; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 77951485695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPEC.2009.5420366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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