Power plant control in large-scale photovoltaic plants: Design, implementation and validation in a 9.4 MW photovoltaic plant

IET Renewable Power Generation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-62

  Bullich Massagué, Eduard ^a   Ferrer San josé, Ricard ^a   Aragüés Peñalba, Mònica ^a   Serrano Salamanca, Luis ^b   Pacheco Navas, Carlos ^b   Gomis Bellmunt, Oriol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b GreenPowerMonitor   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; GRID CODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT; POWER PLANT CONTROL; PV INVERTER; PV POWER PLANTS; SWITCHED CAPACITOR;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 84954070331     PISSN: 17521416     EISSN: 17521424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2015.0113     Document Type: Article

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