An Overview of the Distributed Generation (DG) Connected to the GRID

Author

Kundu, Debabrata Debu

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The author worked on distributed generation (DG) connected to the transmission and distribution GRIDS of Ontario Hydro, from 1985 to 1999. During that period, he has experienced lots of technical problems in connecting to the GRID. In this paper, he would discuss his experiences with the following topics: 1) Types of DG´s, including sources of prime power (e.g. water, gas, wind, solar, etc.) in brief 2) Methodology of connection to the GRID minimizing the cost impact to the customers 3) system groundings and transformer connections 4) faults and their effects 5) protective relaying 6) control and metering 7) harmonics and resonance 8) Benefits of DG connecting to the GRID and operating in the micro-GRID format The paper will be concluded with a case study of connecting a DG to the GRID, and conclusions.

Keywords

distributed power generation; power grids; distributed generation; distribution GRIDS; Costs; Distributed control; Grounding; Hydraulic turbines; Induction generators; Joining processes; Protective relaying; Resonance; Solar power generation; Synchronous generators; Connection to the GRID; Distributed Generation (DG); Faults and their Effects; Harmonics; Micro-GRID; Protective Relaying; Resonance; System Groundings; Transformer Connections;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology and IEEE Power India Conference, 2008. POWERCON 2008. Joint International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1763-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1762-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPST.2008.4745292

Filename

4745292