Quantification of voltage fluctuations caused by a wave farm connected to weak, rural electricity networks

ICHQP 2010 - 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nambiar, A J ^a   Kiprakis, A E ^b   Wallace, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Marine technology; Power conversion; Power generation control; Power quality; Reactive power control; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT POWER; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; CONTROL METHODS; ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; MATLAB /SIMULINK; ON-LOAD TAP CHANGING TRANSFORMERS; POWER CONVERSION; POWER FACTOR CONTROL; POWER FACTORS; POWER GENERATION CONTROL; SEVERITY INDEX; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS; VOLTAGE QUALITY; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FARMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MARINE ENGINEERING; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78650591947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHQP.2010.5625464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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