Effect of distributed generation on line losses and Network Resonances

Author

Rangarajan, S.S. ; Sreejith, S. ; Nigam, S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Vellore Inst. of Technol., Vellore, India

fYear

2014

fDate

9-11 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Technological advancement in renewable energy systems and government incentives like Feed In Tariff Program for green electricity generation is motivating utilities around the world to upgrade their existing distribution system infrastructure in order to accommodate increased wind power and photovoltaic (PV) solar power based distributed generation (DG) systems. This paper presents the effect of Distributed Generation Systems on various factors like the Line Losses, Voltage Profile and Network Resonances. A suitable real time North American Distribution Feeder is considered along with Distributed Generation (DG) units. The well-developed graphic facilities available in an industry standard power system package, namely PSCAD/EMTDC for the Network Resonance Study and Distribution Engineering Simulation Software (DESS) for Line Loss and Voltage Profile Study are considered to study the impact of Distributed Generation unit in Distribution Systems.

Keywords

distributed power generation; distribution networks; losses; power supply quality; EMTDC; PSCAD; distributed generation; distribution engineering simulation; graphic facilities; line loss; network resonance study; voltage profile; Distributed power generation; Generators; Impedance; PSCAD; Reactive power; Resonant frequency; Voltage control; DESS; Distributed Generation; Network Resonances; PSCAD/EMTDC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vellore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAEE.2014.6838525

Filename

6838525