Distribution Voltage Regulation Through Active Power Curtailment With PV Inverters and Solar Generation Forecasts

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-22

  Ghosh, Shibani ^a   Rahman, Saifur ^a   Pipattanasomporn, Manisa ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active power curtailment; distribution voltage regulation; high photovoltaic (PV) penetration; Kalman filter (KF); overvoltage prevention; solar forecasting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTROLYSIS; KALMAN FILTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REACTIVE POWER; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE POWER; DISTRIBUTION VOLTAGES; OVER-VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR FORECASTING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85007613598     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2016.2577559     Document Type: Article

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