Voltage quality control of a 1MW wave farm connected to weak, rural electricity networks

Proceedings of the Universities Power Engineering Conference

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   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Rural electricity network integration; Voltage quality; Voltage reactive power control; Wave energy converter array

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT POWER; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; CONTROL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; MATLAB /SIMULINK; ON-LOAD TAP CHANGING TRANSFORMERS; POWER FACTORS; PROS AND CONS; RURAL ELECTRICITY NETWORK INTEGRATION; SEA STATE; VOLTAGE QUALITY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER ARRAY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; FARMS; FUZZY LOGIC; OCEAN CURRENTS; POWER CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 78751470098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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