DC Microgrids - Part II: A Review of Power Architectures, Applications, and Standardization Issues

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3528-3549

  Dragičević, Tomislav ^a   Lu, Xiaonan ^b   Vasquez, Juan C ^a   Guerrero, Josep M ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DCmicrogrid (MG); power architectures; protection and grounding; standardization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; STANDARDIZATION;

DCMICROGRID (MG); DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; POWER ARCHITECTURES; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SMART GRID APPLICATIONS;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84961911813     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2464277     Document Type: Review

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