Optimal PV inverter reactive power control and real power curtailment to improve performance of unbalanced four-wire LV distribution networks

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 967-977

  Su, Xiangjing ^a   Masoum, Mohammad A S ^a   Wolfs, Peter J ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optimal power flow (OPF); photovoltaic (PV) power systems; power distribution; power quality; reactive power control

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; HOUSING; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER QUALITY; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; WIRE;

LOW-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMAL POWER FLOW; OPTIMAL POWER FLOWS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTIVE POWER CAPABILITY; RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84904091615     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2313862     Document Type: Article

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