Centralized control for parallel operation of distributed generation inverters in microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1977-1987

  Tan, K T ^a,b   Peng, X Y ^a,b   So, P L ^a,b   Chu, Y C ^a,b   Chen, M Z Q ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Centralized control; distributed generation; energy management; microgrids; parallel inverter operation

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED CONTROL; CENTRALIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL PROBLEMS; DESIGN CONCEPT; DG UNIT; DISTRIBUTION GRID; ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; GRID-CONNECTED; ISLANDED OPERATION; LARGE POWER SYSTEMS; LOAD SHARING; MICRO GRID; PARALLEL INVERTER; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STABLE OPERATION; TEST SCENARIO;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84872070999     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2205952     Document Type: Article

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