Electric springs - A new smart grid technology

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1552-1561

  Hui, Shu Yuen ^a,b   Lee, Chi Kwan ^a   Wu, Felix F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed power systems; smart loads; stability

Indexed keywords

AC POWER SOURCE; DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEMS; FLUCTUATING WIND; HOOKE'S LAW; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MECHANICAL SPRINGS; NEW FORMS; NOVEL CONCEPT; OPERATING MODES; POWER DEMANDS; POWER GRIDS; POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES; SMART GRID; SMART LOADS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84865522858     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2200701     Document Type: Article

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