Grid interfacing of multimegawatt photovoltaic inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2770-2784

  Azmi, Syahrul Ashikin ^a   Adam, Grain Philip ^a   Ahmed, Khaled H ^b   Finney, Stephen J ^a   Williams, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Grid connected photovoltaic inverters; Highpower medium voltage inverters; Pulsewidth modulations (PWMs); Switching losses

Indexed keywords

GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; GRID-CONNECTED PV INVERTERS; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SPACE VECTOR PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PWM); SWITCHING LOSS;

MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; STANDARDS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VECTOR SPACES;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84887216333     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2219072     Document Type: Article

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