“Grid”-Less Power Systems: A Vision for Future Structure of Power Networks

Fazeli, Meghdad; Holland, Paul; BARUWA, MUFTAU

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“Grid”-Less Power Systems: A Vision for Future Structure of Power Networks

Meghdad Fazeli

, Paul Holland, MUFTAU BARUWA

IEEE Access, Volume: 8, Pages: 159120 - 159131

Swansea University Authors: Meghdad Fazeli , Paul Holland, MUFTAU BARUWA

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This paper proposes a new paradigm in the structure of power systems to facilitate the large scale move to renewables-based distributed generation necessary to help decarbonize the current electricity networks. Since the design of the incumbent power system topologies is to control large synchronous...

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