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.

fYear

2006

fDate

15-18 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDCLA.2006.311476

Filename

4104707