Investigations into the control and protection of an existing distribution network to operate as a microgrid: A case study

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1904-1915

  Zamani, M Amin ^a   Sidhu, Tarlochan S ^b   Yazdani, Amirnaser ^c  

^a KINECTRICS INC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; fault; islanded mode; microgrid; power system protection; renewable energy systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULTING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CONTROL AND PROTECTION; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ISLANDED MODE; MICRO GRID; POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; SYNCHRONIZATION CAPABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84887310454     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2267695     Document Type: Article

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