Reliability evaluation of active distribution systems including microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2342-2350

  Bie, Zhaohong ^a   Zhang, Peng ^b   Li, Gengfeng ^a   Hua, Bowen ^a   Meehan, Matthew ^b   Wang, Xifan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Active distribution network; microgrid; Monte Carlo simulation; reliability evaluation; virtual power plant

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY OUTAGE; DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; IEEE TEST SYSTEMS; MICRO GRID; MINIMAL PATH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-STATE MODEL; MULTIPLE CONTINGENCIES; NONSEQUENTIAL; NUMERICAL TESTS; OPERATION MODE; RELIABILITY BEHAVIOR; RELIABILITY EVALUATION; STATE EVALUATION; VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS; ZONE PARTITIONING;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER PLANTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84867925672     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2202695     Document Type: Article

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