Local reactive power control methods for overvoltage prevention of distributed solar inverters in low-voltage grids

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-182

  Demirok, Erhan ^a   González, Pablo Casado ^b   Frederiksen, Kenn H B ^c   Sera, Dezso ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^b   Teodorescu, Remus ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Renewable Energy Department   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Low voltage (LV) network; reactive power control; solar inverters

Indexed keywords

GRID CODES; GRID LOSS; GRID VOLTAGE; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; LOW-VOLTAGE; LOW-VOLTAGE GRID; LV NETWORKS; OVER-VOLTAGES; PENETRATION LEVEL; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER ABSORPTION; POWER FACTORS; POWER PRODUCTION; POWER STRATEGIES; SOLAR INVERTER; VOLTAGE RANGES; VOLTAGE VARIATION; WEAK POINTS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTROLYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84865173455     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2174821     Document Type: Article

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