Lab Tests: Verifying That Smart Grid Power Converters Are Truly Smart

IEEE Power and Energy Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 30-42

  Bründlinger, Ronald ^a   Strasser, Thomas ^a   Lauss, Georg ^a   Hoke, Andy ^b   Chakraborty, Sudipta ^b   Martin, Greg ^b   Kroposki, Benjamin ^b   Johnson, Jay ^c   De Jong, Erik ^d  

^a AIT   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; ENERGY RESOURCES; POWER CONVERTERS;

DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; GRID SECURITY; MASSIVE DEPLOYMENT; OVERALL STABILITIES; RESERVE CAPACITY; SMART GRID; TRADITIONAL POWER SYSTEM;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84924411161     PISSN: 15407977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPE.2014.2379935     Document Type: Short Survey

References (5)

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4. J. Johnson S. Gonzalez, M. E. Ralph, A. Ellis, and R. Broderick, "Test protocols for advanced inverter interoperability functions," Sandia Tech. Rep. SAN D2013-9880 and SAN D2013-9875, Nov. 2013.
5. A. Hoke, S. Chakraborty, and T. Basso, "Testing of advanced PV inverters conforming to IEEE Standard 1547 - Amendment 1," in Proc. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conf. (PVSC), Denver, CO , June 2014, pp. 1014-1021.