Droop-based active power curtailment for overvoltage prevention in grid connected PV inverters

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2388-2393

  Tonkoski, R ^a   Lopes, L A C ^a   EL Fouly, T H M ^b  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Power distribution; Power quality and voltage control; Power systems; Solar power generation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONSERVATIVE VALUE; CONTROLLABLE POWER SOURCE; CRITICAL PERIODS; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; ENERGY YIELDS; GRID-CONNECTED PV; LOW LOAD; LOW-VOLTAGE; OVER-VOLTAGES; PENETRATION LEVEL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER SYSTEMS; PV INVERTER; PV SYSTEM; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLAR POWER;

CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYSIS; FEEDING; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78650337373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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