Trends in microgrid control

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1905-1919

  Olivares, Daniel E ^a   Mehrizi Sani, Ali ^b   Etemadi, Amir H ^c   Cañizares, Claudio A ^a   Iravani, Reza ^c   Kazerani, Mehrdad ^a   Hajimiragha, Amir H ^d   Gomis Bellmunt, Oriol ^e   Saeedifard, Maryam ^f   Palma Behnke, Rodrigo ^g   Jiménez Estévez, Guillermo A ^g   Hatziargyriou, Nikos D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d GE Digital Energy Multilin   (Canada)

^e CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^f Purdue University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^h NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Control; droop control; hierarchical control; microgrid; smart grid

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COORDINATED OPERATION; DROOP CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; MICRO GRID; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SMART GRID; TECHNICAL LITERATURE;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84903382931     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2295514     Document Type: Article

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