DocumentCode
3069887
Title
Perspectives for DC distribution adoption in Brazil
Author
de Oliveira, Thiago R. ; Donoso-Garcia, Pedro F.
Author_Institution
Grad. Program in Electr. Eng., UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
fYear
2015
fDate
7-10 June 2015
Firstpage
359
Lastpage
364
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss possible means for DC distribution adoption in Brazil in medium term, basing the discussion on the perspective of an emerging country. A main path to be explored is the progressive adaptation of PV residential and commercial distributed generation systems into a DC microgrid, allowing energy efficiency, power quality and energy management improvements. A DC microgrid testbed in current development in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) will also be described and simulated results will be used to demonstrate the behavior of the proposed architecture.
Keywords
distributed power generation; distribution networks; energy conservation; energy management systems; power supply quality; solar cells; Brazil; DC distribution adoption; DC microgrid; Federal University of Minas Gerais; PV residential; UFMG; distributed generation system; energy efficiency; energy management improvement; power quality; Batteries; Employment; Low voltage; Microgrids; Power generation; Smart grids;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
DC Microgrids (ICDCM), 2015 IEEE First International Conference on
Conference_Location
Atlanta, GA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICDCM.2015.7152069
Filename
7152069
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