Harmonic impact of high penetration photovoltaic system on unbalanced distribution networks - Learning from an urban photovoltaic network

IET Renewable Power Generation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 485-494

  Chidurala, Annapoorna ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a   Mithulananthan, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BACKGROUND DISTORTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); TRANSFORMER OVERLOADING; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962097674     PISSN: 17521416     EISSN: 17521424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2015.0188     Document Type: Article

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