A control strategy for enhanced operation of inverter-based microgrids under transient disturbances and network faults

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1737-1747

  Zamani, M Amin ^a   Yazdani, Amirnaser ^b   Sidhu, Tarlochan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronically coupled distributed energy resources; fault; frequency regulation; islanded mode of operation; microgrid; power electronics; power sharing; reclosing; voltage regulation; voltage sourced converter

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; FAULT; FREQUENCY REGULATIONS; ISLANDED MODE; MICRO GRID; POWER SHARING; RECLOSING; VOLTAGE SOURCED CONVERTERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; POWER ELECTRONICS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84866734164     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2205713     Document Type: Article

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