Coordinated active power curtailment of grid connected PV inverters for overvoltage prevention

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-147

  Tonkoski, Reinaldo ^a   Lopes, Luiz A C ^a   El Fouly, Tarek H M ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer 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; CRITICAL PERIODS; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; ENERGY YIELDS; GRID-CONNECTED PV; LOW-VOLTAGE; OVER-VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER SYSTEMS; PV INVERTER; PV SYSTEM; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLAR POWER;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYSIS; FEEDING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 79953067678     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2010.2098483     Document Type: Article

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