Integrating photovoltaic inverter reliability into energy yield estimation with Markov models

2010 IEEE 12th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dhople, Sairaj V ^a   Davoudi, Ali ^a   Chapman, Patrick L ^a   Domínguez García, Alejandro D ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy yield estimation; Markov reliability models; Photovoltaic energy conversion; Utility interactive inverters

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY YIELDS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MARKOV MODEL; MARKOV RELIABILITY MODELS; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; PV ENERGY; RELIABILITY MODEL; UTILITY-INTERACTIVE INVERTER; YIELD MODELS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ENERGY CONVERSION; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; POWER ELECTRONICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REPAIR;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 77957976861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPEL.2010.5562393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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