Impact of active power curtailment on overvoltage prevention and energy production of PV inverters connected to low voltage residential feeders

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3566-3574

  Tonkoski, Reinaldo ^a   Lopes, Luiz A C ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Overvoltages; Power distribution; Power quality; Power systems; Solar power generation; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONSERVATIVE VALUE; CRITICAL PERIODS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENERGY YIELDS; LOAD PROFILES; LOW LOAD; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; OVER-VOLTAGES; PENETRATION LEVEL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER DISTRIBUTION; POWER SOURCES; PV INVERTER; PV SYSTEM; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TOTAL ENERGY;

CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYSIS; FEEDING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER QUALITY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER; SUBURBAN AREA;

CANADA;

EID: 79960163579     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.05.031     Document Type: Article

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