A novel approach for ramp-rate control of solar PV using energy storage to mitigate output fluctuations caused by cloud passing

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 507-518

  Alam, M J E ^a   Muttaqi, K M ^a   Sutanto, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy storage; fluctuation; ramp rate control; solar PV

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; FLUCTUATION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOVING AVERAGE METHOD; RAMP-RATE; SOLAR PVS; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 84901460323     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2014.2304951     Document Type: Article

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