Title :
Evaluating the Effects of High Penetrations of Roof-Top Wind Turbines on Secondary Distribution Circuits
Author :
Kritharas, Petros P. ; Ochoa, Luis F. ; Papastergiou, Konstantinos D. ; Harrison, Gareth P.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Energy Syst., Edinburgh Univ.
Abstract :
Incentives for using wind power and the increasing price of energy might generate in a relatively short time a scenario where low voltage customers opt to install roof-top wind turbines. This paper focuses on evaluating the effects of such situation in terms of energy consumption, loss reduction, reverse power flow and voltage profiles. Various commercially-available roof-top wind turbines are installed in two secondary distribution circuits considering real-life wind speed data and seasonal load demand. Results are presented and discussed
Keywords :
load flow; power consumption; power generation economics; wind turbines; energy consumption; energy prices; load demand; loss reduction; reverse power flow; secondary distribution circuits; voltage profiles; wind turbines; Circuits; Energy consumption; Load flow; Low voltage; Optimized production technology; Power generation; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind speed; Wind turbines; distributed generation; distribution networks; line losses; power flow; roof-top wind turbines;
Conference_Titel :
Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, 2006. TDC '06. IEEE/PES
Conference_Location :
Caracas
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0287-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0288-3
DOI :
10.1109/TDCLA.2006.311476
