Online supervisory voltage control for grid interface of utility-level PV plants

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 843-853

  Xiao, Weidong ^a   Torchyan, Khachatur ^a   El Moursi, Mohamed Shawky ^a   Kirtley, James L ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic (PV) systems; reactive power control; solar energy; voltage control; wide area measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; REACTIVE POWER; SOLAR ENERGY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; CONTROL STRATEGIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER ALLOCATION; REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION; SECONDARY VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIDE AREA MEASUREMENT; WIDE AREA MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS;

VOLTAGE CONTROL;

EID: 84904118923     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2306572     Document Type: Article

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