Control strategy for three-/four-wire-inverter-based distributed generation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3890-3899

  Sinsukthavorn, Worpong ^a   Ortjohann, Egon ^a   Mohd, Alaa ^b   Hamsic, Nedzad ^a   Morton, Danny ^c  

^a SOUTH WESTPHALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Enecsys Micro Inverter   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed energy resources (DERs); distributed generation (DG); inverter; isochronous control; load sharing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVENTIONAL POWER; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; INVERTER; ISOCHRONOUS CONTROLS; LOAD SHARING; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 84860473248     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2188871     Document Type: Article

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