2017/02/01 by Zachary K. Pecenak, Pecenak, Zachary K., Jan Kleissl +3
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Microgrid Control and Optimization #Optimal Power Flow Distribution #Power System Reliability and Maintenance #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.00527
openalex publication_date 2017/02/01 · openalex created_date 2022/10/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The impacts of high PV penetration on distribution feeders have been well\ndocumented within the last decade. To mitigate these impacts, interconnection\nstandards have been amended to allow PV inverters to regulate voltage locally.\nHowever, there is a deficiency of literature discussing how these inverters\nwill behave on real feeders under increasing PV penetration. In this paper, we\nsimulate several deployment scenarios of these inverters on a real California\ndistribution feeder. We show that minimum and maximum voltage, tap operations,\nand voltage variability are improved due to the inverters. Line losses were\nshown to increase at high PV penetrations as a side effect. Furthermore, we\nfind inverter sizing was shown to be important as PV penetration increased.\nFinally we show that increasing the number of inverters and removing the\ndeadband from the Volt/VAr control curve improves the effectiveness.\n