Distributed Volt/VAr control by PV inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3429-3439

  Jahangiri, Pedram ^a   Aliprantis, Dionysios C ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic power systems; power distribution; reactive power control; voltage control

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; REVERSE POWER FLOWS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRANSFORMER TAP CHANGERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL LOOP;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84880920922     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2256375     Document Type: Article

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