Impacts of photovoltaics on low voltage networks: A case study for the north west of England

IET Conference Publications

Volumn 2013, Issue 615 CP, 2013, Pages

  Navarro, Alejandro ^a   Ochoa, Luis F ^a   Mancarella, Pierluigi ^a   Randles, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Electricity North West Limited ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSBAR VOLTAGES; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; ENGLAND; LOW VOLTAGE NETWORK; LV NETWORKS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PV GENERATION; PV PENETRATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84897696615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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