Impact of 100-MW-scale PV plants with synchronous power controllers on power system stability in northern Chile

IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 2958-2964

  Remon, Daniel ^a   Cañizares, Claudio A ^b   Rodriguez, Pedro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD LOYOLA ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; MODAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SYSTEM STABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONVERTER CONTROLLERS; FREQUENCY EXCURSION; LARGE DISTURBANCE; POWER OSCILLATIONS; POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 85029186605     PISSN: 17518687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2017.0203     Document Type: Article

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