Combined central and local active and reactive power control of PV inverters

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 776-784

  Weckx, Sam ^a,b   Gonzalez, Carlos ^a   Driesen, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central control; convex optimization; local control; photovoltaic (PV) generation; power curtailment; reactive power control; voltage control

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; CENTRAL CONTROL; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LOCAL CONTROL; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; POWER CURTAILMENT; THREE-PHASE FOUR-WIRE;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84904126557     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2300934     Document Type: Article

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