New family of microgrid control and management strategies in smart distribution grids-analysis, comparison and testing

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2257-2269

  Ashabani, Seyed Mahdi ^a   Mohamed, Yasser Abdel Rady I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control topology; microgrid; power management; smart grid; voltage source converter

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER MANAGEMENT; REACTIVE POWER; ROBUST CONTROL; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; TOPOLOGY;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; CONTROL TOPOLOGIES; MICRO GRID; POWER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SMART DISTRIBUTION GRIDS; SMART GRID; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84906784840     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2306016     Document Type: Article

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