Common DC link in residential LV network to improve the penetration level of Small-Scale Embedded Generators

Author

Mokhtari, G. ; Zare, F. ; Nourbakhsh, G. ; Ghosh, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 June 2012

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for network upgrading to improve the penetration level of Small Scale Generators in residential feeders. In this paper, it is proposed that a common DC link can be added to LV network to alleviate the negative impact of increased export power on AC lines, allowing customers to inject their surplus power with no restrictions to the common DC link. In addition, it is shown that the proposed approach can be a pathway from current AC network to future DC network.

Keywords

distribution networks; AC lines; AC network; DC distribution system; DC link; DC network; export power; residential LV network; residential feeders; small-scale embedded generators penetration level; Converters; Distributed power generation; Inverters; Power quality; Voltage control; DC link; Local Matching; Penetration Level; Residential Feeder;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), 2012 3rd IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2021-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2022-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDG.2012.6253973

Filename

6253973