Online overvoltage prevention control of photovoltaic generators in microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2071-2078

  Wang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Li, Wenyuan ^b   Xiao, Weidong ^c   Abdollahi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BC HYDRO   (Canada)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Distribution system; microgrid; overvoltage prevention; photovoltaic generator; thevenin equivalent

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; ACTIVE POWER OUTPUT; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; GRID-CONNECTED; MAJOR FACTORS; MICRO GRID; OVER-VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; POWER OUT PUT; PV ARRAYS; PV ENERGY; REAL TIME; REVERSE POWER FLOWS; TERMINAL VOLTAGES; TEST SYSTEMS; THEVENIN EQUIVALENT; THREE PHASE SYSTEM;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROLYSIS;

EID: 84872181734     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2222679     Document Type: Article

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