Investigation of voltage stability for residential customers due to high photovoltaic penetrations

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 651-662

  Yan, Ruifeng ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distribution system; photovoltaic (PV); PV integration; voltage stability

Indexed keywords

BUS SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION LEVELS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC SYSTEMS; LOW VOLTAGES; NETWORK STABILITY; PENETRATION LEVEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PV GENERATION; PV INVERTER; REACTIVE POWER SUPPORT; RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS; SIMULATION COMPARISON; SWITCHING DELAY; VOLTAGE INSTABILITY; VOLTAGE STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INTEGRATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84860302091     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2180741     Document Type: Article

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