Photovoltaic reactive power limits

Author

Albarracin, R. ; Alonso, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 May 2013

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

Today, Photovoltaic (PV) inverters are working with very small values of reactive power. Then, the Power Factor (PF) is very close to the unit. So, the PV installations only inject active power into the grid. This paper aims to investigate the limits of reactive power capacity in PV generators. In this way, PV generators could be used as a controlled reactive power sources. In this paper, an introduction to the voltage control in photovoltaic generators is described and implemented in Simulink/Matlab and PSS/E.

Keywords

AC generators; invertors; photovoltaic power systems; power generation control; reactive power control; voltage control; PSS-E; PV generators; PV installations; PV inverters; Simulink-Matlab; controlled reactive power sources; photovoltaic inverters; photovoltaic reactive power limits; reactive power capacity; voltage control; Generators; Inverters; Photovoltaic systems; Power grids; Reactive power; Voltage control; Photovoltaic (PV); Power Quality; over-voltage; reactive power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wroclaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3060-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2013.6549630

Filename

6549630