Voltage regulation in distribution networks in the presence of distributed generation: A voltage set-point reconfiguration approach

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-34

  Casavola, Alessandro ^a   Franzè, Giuseppe ^a   Menniti, Daniele ^a   Sorrentino, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Distribution networks; Nonlinear feedback; Predictive control; Quadratic programming; Voltage regulation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CRITICAL EVENTS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; ON-LOAD TAP CHANGERS; POWER GRIDS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; RECONFIGURATION PROBLEMS; SET-POINT; SIMULATION RESULT; SYSTEM VARIABLES; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; POWER GENERATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

NONLINEAR FEEDBACK;

EID: 77958047967     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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