Evaluation of emerging modular multilevel converters for BESS applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2086-2094

  Soong, Theodore ^a   Lehn, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Battery storage plants; DC AC power conversion; energy storage; power conversion; power electronics

Indexed keywords

POWER ELECTRONICS;

BATTERY STORAGE PLANTS; DC-AC POWER CONVERSION; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; POWER CONVERSION;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 84907553604     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2341181     Document Type: Article

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