Impact of PV generation on low voltage networks

Author

Hairi, M.H. ; Qi, Shaofan ; Li, Haiyu ; Randles, Dan

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to present the performance of the single phase power electronic inverter-based Photovoltaic (PV) system connected to the low voltage grid. The PV model has been developed in PSCAD. The designed system uses PV panel as the main source of energy, single phase voltage source inverter (VSI) and low voltage power system network. In this paper, a common independently P & Q control inverter circuit at near unit power factor. The impact of PV resources on LV network voltage has been analyzed. Furthermore, impact of network fault on PV system has also been investigated and discussed.

Keywords

invertors; photovoltaic power systems; power factor; power generation faults; power grids; P and Q control inverter circuit; PSCAD; PV generation model; PV panel; PV system; VSI; low voltage grid; low voltage networks; low voltage power system network; network fault; single phase voltage source inverter; single-phase power electronic inverter-based photovoltaic system; unit power factor; Circuit faults; Fault currents; Inverters; Low voltage; Photovoltaic systems; Reactive power; Distributed Generation; Faults; PV inverter; PV performance; PV system simulation; Photovoltaic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), 2012 47th International

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2854-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2855-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UPEC.2012.6398583

Filename

6398583