A cascaded photovoltaic system integrating segmented energy storages with self-regulating power allocation control and wide range reactive power compensation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3545-3559

  Liu, Liming ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Wu, Zhichao ^b   Zhou, Yan ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Magnetek Energy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded photovoltaic (PV) system; power allocation; reactive power compensation; segmented energy storages

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER CONTROL; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; DUTY CYCLES; GRID-CONNECTED; OVER-VOLTAGES; OVERMODULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; POWER ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; POWER ALLOCATIONS; PV SYSTEM; REACTIVE POWER ALLOCATION; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; UTILITY GRIDS; VECTOR DIAGRAMS;

ALGORITHMS; DELAY CIRCUITS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ENERGY STORAGE; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 83455178196     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2168544     Document Type: Article

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