Turning Distribution Feeders into STATCOMs

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1372-1380

  Moghe, Rohit ^a   Divan, Deepak ^b   Lewis, Dexter ^c   Schatz, Joe ^c  

^a Varentec   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Alabama Power A Southern Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor banks; distributed control; distribution feeders; grid edge control; load tap changer (LTC); power electronics controllers; STATCOMs; volt VAR control

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FEEDING; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CAPACITOR BANK; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; EDGE CONTROLS; LOAD TAP CHANGER; VOLT VARS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 85017608141     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2016.2634520     Document Type: Article

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