Reactive power and voltage control in grid-connected wind farms: an online optimization based fast model predictive control approach

Electrical Engineering

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 35-44

  Ahmed, Hafiz ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Grid integration; Model predictive control; Reactive power control

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORECASTING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER CONTROL; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIND POWER;

EXTERNAL NETWORK; GRID CONNECTED WIND FARMS; GRID INTEGRATION; LINEAR PREDICTION MODELS; ONLINE OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION HORIZON; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; REACTIVE POWER OUTPUT;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 84922447676     PISSN: 09487921     EISSN: 14320487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00202-014-0314-1     Document Type: Article

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