Cooperative converter for improving the performance of grid-connected photovoltaic power plants

IET Renewable Power Generation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 110-117

  Miñambres Marcos, Víctor ^a   Romero Cadaval, Enrique ^a   Guerrero Martínez, Miguel Ángel ^a   Milanés Montero, María Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT HYSTERESIS; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; PARALLEL ASSOCIATION; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; TWO-LEVEL INVERTERS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84879378884     PISSN: 17521416     EISSN: 17521424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2012.0065     Document Type: Article

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