Distributed renewables and battery storage for the support of the edge of the rural grid

2011 21st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wolfs, Peter ^a   Gunathilake, Chathura ^b   Martino, Peter ^c   Khanna, Ishaan ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Longmont Engineering   (Australia)

^c Western Power   (Australia)

Author keywords

distributed renewables; energy storage; micro islanding; power quality; rural distribution; smart grid; voltage support

Indexed keywords

BATTERY ENERGY; BATTERY STORAGE; EDGE SUPPORTS; FIRST YEAR; ISLANDING; LOAD GROWTH; METROPOLITAN NETWORKS; NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION; PEAK SHAVING; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT; RENEWABLES; RURAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; SMART GRID; VOLTAGE SUPPORT; WESTERN POWER;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY STORAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER QUALITY; SMART POWER GRIDS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84855744799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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