Alleviating solar energy congestion in the distribution grid via smart metering communications

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1607-1620

  Lo, Chun Hao ^a   Ansari, Nirwan ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

congestion; coordination and scheduling; cyber physical system; demand and supply; distributed generation; power surplus; renewable energy resources; Smart grid; smart metering

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION; CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPSS); DEMAND AND SUPPLY; POWER SURPLUS; SMART GRID; SMART METERING;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SMART POWER GRIDS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84864625995     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.125     Document Type: Article

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