Chapter 2: Operational and environmental aspects of standalone microgrids

Masood Nazira; Aijaz Ahmada; Ikhlaq Hussainb    a Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Indiab Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Abstract

With conventional resources not quite able to compensate for the energy deficit due to a host of problems, researchers have come up with a novel idea of distributed generation (DG), which involves the integration of the energy source at the load end. Integration of DGs in the current setup of standalone grids introduces technical hiccups due to the flow of bidirectional power. These problems ...

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