Local distribution voltage control by reactive power injection from PV inverters enhanced with active power curtailment

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn 2014-October, Issue October, 2014, Pages

  Ghosh, Shibani ^a   Rahman, Saifur ^a   Pipattanasomporn, Manisa ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active power curtailment; line voltage regulator operations; PV inverter; reactive power injection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE POWER; LINE VOLTAGE REGULATOR OPERATIONS; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; OVER-VOLTAGES; PEAK GENERATION; PV INVERTER; REACTIVE POWER INJECTIONS; REACTIVE POWER OUTPUT;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84930995188     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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