Analysis of power quality impact of high penetration PV in residential feeders

Author

Jayasekara, Nadeeshani ; Wolfs, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Residential photovoltaic (PV) generators are the dominant renewable energy source in urban and metropolitan areas. This technology is enjoying rapid growth due to a combination of subsidies, the abundance of sunshine and the low impacts of the technology in the urban landscape. Voltage regulation is the major power quality impact caused by increased PV penetration levels. The impact of various PV penetration levels under varying operating conditions, on the distribution feeder voltage profile has been investigated in this study. The distribution feeder model was developed and implemented in DigSilent PowerFactory using databases of PV generation and residential feeder data.

Keywords

distributed power generation; photovoltaic power systems; power distribution control; power supply quality; voltage control; distribution feeder model; power quality; renewable energy; residential feeder; residential photovoltaic generator; voltage regulation; Australia; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Load modeling; Reactive power; Voltage control; Voltage fluctuations; Reactive power; reverse power; standards; voltage regulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), 2010 20th Australasian

Conference_Location

Christchurch

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8379-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8380-8

Type

conf

Filename

5710788