Voltage variation sensitivity analysis for unbalanced distribution networks due to photovoltaic power fluctuations

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1078-1089

  Yan, Ruifeng ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic system; power distribution; reconfiguration method; unbalanced network; voltage regulation; voltage variation sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BUS VOLTAGE; DISTRIBUTION AREA; LINE CONFIGURATION; LOADING LEVEL; LOW VOLTAGES; NETWORK RE-CONFIGURATION; NETWORK SUPPORT; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER FLUCTUATIONS; PV GENERATION; RECONFIGURATION METHOD; REMOTE BUS; SHORT PERIODS; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; VOLTAGE DROP; VOLTAGE IMBALANCE; VOLTAGE PROBLEMS; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

LOADING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860256377     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179567     Document Type: Article

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