Voltage and reactive power impacts on successful operation of islanded microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1716-1727

  Farag, Hany E ^a   Abdelaziz, Morad Mohamed Abdelmageed ^a   El Saadany, Ehab F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG); Islanded microgrid; Microgrid reliability; Voltage and reactive power

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; ISLANDED MICROGRID; MICRO GRID; MICROGRID MODELING; MICROGRID OPERATIONS; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUE; SIMULATION STUDIES;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84884546758     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2223491     Document Type: Article

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