Evaluation of advanced operation and control of distributed wind farms to support efficiency and reliability

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 735-742

  Keane, A ^a   Cuffe, P ^a   Diskin, E ^b   Brooks, D ^c   Harrington, P ^b   Hearne, T ^b   Rylander, M ^c   Fallon, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Electricity Supply Board Ireland   (Ireland)

^c EPRI   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; power distribution planning; reactive power; voltage control; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY; OPERATION AND CONTROL; POWER DISTRIBUTION PLANNING; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; WIND GENERATION;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84883248916     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2200000     Document Type: Article

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