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2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 25-30

  Reinhardt, Andreas ^a   Egarter, Dominik ^b   Konstantinou, Georgios ^c   Christin, Delphine ^d  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KELAG Kärntner Elektrizitäts Aktiengesellschaft   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SMALL POWER PLANTS; SMART POWER GRIDS; SOLAR ENERGY;

AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; OPERATING POINTS; PRIVACY PRESERVING; PV INSTALLATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84964940589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2015.7436271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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