Special issue: Applications of power electronics in wind and solar energy

International Journal of Power Electronics 1(2) 2008

• Split capacitor VSC-based voltage and frequency controller for a stand-alone wind power generation
• Optimal control of matrix converter based WECS for performance and stability enhancement at low wind speeds
• Application of an artificial neural network for predicting the sizing curve of stand-alone photovoltaic system: a case study
• Dispatching of wind farms using battery energy storage
• Space vector modulation based single stage inverter with maximum power point tracker for photovoltaic water pumping system
• PSO-based feedback controller design of DSTATCOM for load compensation with non-stiff sources
• Small-signal analysis of a single-stage two-switch AC-to-DC converter
• Wind power smoothing using rotor inertia aimed at reducing grid susceptibility