On the Interplay of Distributed Power Loss Reduction and Communication in Low Voltage Microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 322-337

  Bonetto, Riccardo ^a   Rossi, Michele ^a   Tomasin, Stefano ^a   Zorzi, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cogeneration; Computer simulation; distributed power generation; microgrids; numerical simulation; power system simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

COGENERATION; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED GENERATOR (DGS); MICRO GRID; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; POWER LOSS REDUCTION; POWER SYSTEM SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84962578801     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2015.2509251     Document Type: Article

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