Novel 24 hour usage of a PV Solar Farm for reducing Line Loss

Author

Rangarajan, S.S. ; Sreejith, S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Vellore Inst. of Technol., Vellore, India

fYear

2013

fDate

10-12 April 2013

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

386

Abstract

PV Solar Farm/Plant produces real power during the day and is completely idle in the night and also during daytime when the sunlight is not present. This paper presents a Novel Concept of 24 Hour utilization of a PV Solar Plant in a Distribution Feeder for Line Loss Reduction and the Savings obtained during this Loss reduction and also the demonstration of Voltage Profile Improvement in a Distribution Utility Feeder. Suitable system studies and results are obtained for PV Solar Plant Integration in a real time North American Industrial Distribution Feeder while the PV Solar Farm is acting as a Real Power Injector (RPI) and Reactive Power Compensator (RPC) during different intervals of the day and night. The manifestation of this concept is clearly shown by means of an effective simulation carried out in an industry standard Power System package, namely Distribution Engineering Simulation Software (DESS).

Keywords

compensation; losses; photovoltaic power systems; power distribution lines; power system simulation; power utilisation; reactive power; solar power stations; DESS; North American Solar Distribution Feeder; PV solar farm-plant integration; RPC; RPI; distribution engineering simulation software; industry standard power system package; line loss reduction; power system simulation; power utilization; reactive power compensator; real power injector; sunlight; time 24 hour; voltage profile improvement; Indexes; Inverters; Phase transformers; Power generation; Reactive power; Real-time systems; Voltage control; Distribution Engineering Simulation Software (DESS); Line Loss Reduction; PV Solar Plant/Farm; Reactive Power Compensation; Real Power; Voltage Profile Improvement (VPI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Efficient Technologies for Sustainability (ICEETS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagercoil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6149-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEETS.2013.6533412

Filename

6533412