Modeling and field measurements of photovoltaic units connected to LV grid. Study of penetration scenarios

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 979-987

  Papaioannou, Ioulia T ^a   Alexiadis, Minas C ^a   Demoulias, Charis S ^a   Labridis, Dimitris P ^a   Dokopoulos, Petros S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributed energy sources; photovoltaic inverters; photovoltaic power systems; power system harmonics

Indexed keywords

CURRENT GENERATOR; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SOURCES; ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HARMONIC CURRENTS; LOAD FLOW; LOW-VOLTAGE; LV NETWORKS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; OPERATING UNITS; PENETRATION LEVEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER SYSTEM HARMONICS; PV INVERTER; PV PANEL; PV SYSTEM; SIMULATED MODEL; SIMULATOR PACKAGE; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 79953172532     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2010.2095888     Document Type: Article

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