A review of power electronics based microgrids

Journal of Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-192

  Wang, Xiongfei ^a   Guerrero, Josep M ^a,b   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a   Chen, Zhe ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ac microgrids; Distributed energy resources; Load sharing; Power converters

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM; FUTURE TRENDS; LOAD SHARING; MICRO GRID; POWER GRIDS; POWER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SYSTEM CONTROL;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES; POWER CONVERTERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84859080847     PISSN: 15982092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2012.12.1.181     Document Type: Article

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