Impacts of residential photovoltaic power fluctuation on on-load tap changer operation and a solution using DSTATCOM

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 111, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-193

  Yan, Ruifeng ^a   Marais, Brandon ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distribution system; Photovoltaic; PV power variability; Tap changer transformer; Voltage regulation

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OPERATORS; DISTRIBUTION STATIC COMPENSATOR; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LOW-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; LV DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER VARIABILITY; TAP CHANGERS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 84896530506     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2014.02.020     Document Type: Article

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