Reactive power injection strategies for single-phase photovoltaic systems considering grid requirements

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 371-378

  Yang, Yongheng ^a   Wang, Huai ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER ELECTRONICS; REACTIVE POWER;

ACTIVE CURRENT CONTROL; ACTIVE POWER CONTROL; CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; PEAK CURRENT CONTROL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER INJECTIONS;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84900429040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2014.6803335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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