Reactive Power Management for Overvoltage Prevention at High PV Penetration in a Low-Voltage Distribution System

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 5786-5794

  Safayet, Ali ^a,c   Fajri, Poria ^b   Husain, Iqbal ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Reno   (United States)

^c Halla Mechatronics   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution network; overvoltage; reactive power management; reverse power flow; solar panels; voltage regulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROLYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCES; POWER MANAGEMENT; REACTIVE POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; VALUE ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; LOW VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; OVER-VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; REACTIVE POWER CAPACITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; REVERSE POWER FLOWS; SOLAR PANELS;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 85028453707     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2741925     Document Type: Article

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