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Bibliography of FACTS Applications for Grid Integration of Wind and PV Solar Power Systems: 2010-2013 IEEE Working Group Report Bibliography of FACTS Applications for Grid Integration of Wind and PV Solar Power Systems: 2010-2013 IEEE Working Group Report Shah Arifur Rahman (Secretary), Member, IEEE , Rajiv. K. Varma ( Chair ), Senior Member, IEEE , and Wayne H. Litzenberger ( Vice Chair ), Fellow, IEEE IEEE Working Group 15.05.17 on HVDC and FACTS Bibliography HVDC and FACTS Sub-Committee of IEEE T&D Committee Abstract —This paper presents the Bibliography of Flexible AC II. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2013 Transmission System (FACTS) applications for grid integration of wind power systems and PV solar power systems during the 2013 Wind Power Systems period 2010 to 2013. It provides a listing of various journal and conference papers in this area. [2] A. Atputharajah, V. K. Ramachandaramurthy and J. Pasupuleti, "Power quality problems and solutions," in Proc. 2013 4th International Index Terms — FACTS, PV solar power, Wind power, Renewable Conference on Energy and Environment . Energy, Distributed Generation, Bibliography [3] A. Banerjee, V. Mukherjee and S. P. Ghoshal, "Modeling and seeker optimization based simulation for intelligent reactive power control of an isolated hybrid power system," Elsevier Journal on Swarm and I. INTRODUCTION Evolutionary Computation, 2013. HE IEEE Working Group 15.05.17 on HVDC and FACTS [4] A. Banik and M. H. Ali, "Comparison between SFCL and TSC for voltage stability enhancement of wind generator system," in Proc. 2013 TBibliography has the responsibility to prepare an annual IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, pp. 1-6. Bibliography on HVDC and FACTS, effective 2004. [5] A. F. Abdou, A. Abu-Siada and H. R. Pota, "Improving the low voltage Additionally, the Working Group has been entrusted with ride through of doubly fed induction generator during intermittent voltage source converter faults," Journal of Renewable and Sustainable compiling Bibliographies, individually on HVDC and FACTS, Energy, vol. 5, no. 4, 2013. for the period 1998-2003 to encompass the period since [6] A. H. M. A. Rahim and E. P. Nowicki, "Modelling of doubly fed publication of the last Annotated Bibliography on HVDC and induction generator in a multimachine acsystem with SMES control," International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. FACTS. 102-108, 2013. Due to the tremendous growth in the integration of [7] A. H. M. A. Rahim and M. T. Hussain, "Evaluation and enhancement of renewable energy sources in electric power systems across the dynamic performance of a microgrid including PV and wind generation globe, a great need was felt for an up-to-date bibliographic systems," Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 201-219, 2013. information on the utilization of FACTS technology for the [8] A. Khatamianfar, M. Khalid, A. V. Savkin and V. G. Agelidis, grid integration of wind power systems and photovoltaic "Improving wind farm dispatch in the australian electricity market with power systems. In pursuance of this need, the Working Group battery energy storage using model predictive control," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 745-755, 2013. decided to prepare this Bibliography for the benefit of the [9] A. M. Shiddiq Yunus, A. Abu-Siada and M. A. S. Masoum, power engineering community. 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