A communication-assisted protection strategy for inverter-based medium-voltage microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2088-2099

  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

Communication assisted protection strategy; distributed generation; electronically coupled distributed generators; microgrid; microprocessor based relays; smart grid

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; MICRO GRID; MICROPROCESSOR-BASED RELAYS; PROTECTION STRATEGY; SMART GRID;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84872091184     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2211045     Document Type: Article

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