Megawatt-scale solar variability study: An experience from a 1.2 MWp photovoltaic system in Australia over three years

IET Renewable Power Generation

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1229-1236

  Yan, Ruifeng ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a   Ananth, Akilesh ^b   Hossain, Mohammed Imran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

LOW-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; NETWORK OPERATIONS; OUTPUT FLUCTUATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER VARIABILITY; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84986910370     PISSN: 17521416     EISSN: 17521424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2015.0383     Document Type: Article

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