Evaluation of the voltage support strategies for the low voltage grid connected PV generators

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 710-717

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

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed inverters; LV network; PV capacity of network; PV integration; Reactive power control; Voltage rise

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INVERTERS; LV NETWORKS; PV CAPACITY OF NETWORK; PV INTEGRATION; VOLTAGE RISE;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY POLICY; POWER CONTROL;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 78650085440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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