Reactive power control for improving voltage profiles: A comparison between two decentralized approaches

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 247-254

  Calderaro, V ^a   Conio, G ^b   Galdi, V ^a   Piccolo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b Italian Vento Power Corporation Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Fuzzy logic; Reactive power control; Voltage regulation; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY CURVES; CONTROL OPERATIONS; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; FUZZY CONTROLLERS; FUZZY METHODS; LOCAL REGULATIONS; NETWORK PARAMETERS; REAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY METHODS; VOLTAGE PROFILE; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS; VOLTAGE STANDARD; VOLTAGE VARIATION; WIND GENERATORS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; POWER CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84355162853     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2011.10.010     Document Type: Review

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