Decentralized control of distributed generation for voltage profile optimization in smart feeders

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1586-1596

  Di Fazio, Anna R ^a   Fusco, Giuseppe ^a   Russo, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; dispersed generation; power distribution; voltage control and optimization

Indexed keywords

CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION; DISPERSED GENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SMART DISTRIBUTION GRIDS; VOLTAGE REGULATION PROBLEMS; VOLTAGE/REACTIVE POWER CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FEEDING; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84883251193     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2253810     Document Type: Article

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