Automated Quantification of PV Hosting Capacity In Distribution Networks Under User-Defined Control and Optimisation Procedures
Abstract
With the rising popularity of photovoltaic (PV) power, utility companies are experiencing a growing number of interconnection requests on their networks. Combined with power quality issues, the distribution system operator (DSO) must go through strenuous impact studies before proceeding to the installation of PV systems. To address this issue, this work proposes a tool to rapidly and accurately compute the total PV hosting capacity (PVHC) of their network. Moreover, the proposed tool allows the implementation of user-defined control strategies in order to assess their beneficial effects with respect to the PVHC. In this prospect, we investigated the impact of smart PV inverters. We implemented this tool as a plugin for PowerFactory and tested it on the CIGRE benchmark distribution grid. First, we determined the PVHC with inverters injecting at unity power factor, then we estimated the gains brought by smart inverter control (SIC). The latter increased the hosting capacity by up to 19.7 %.
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Three main factors determine the limits of the PVHC: power quality standards, thermal limits of conductors and TR, and element fault current.
“Three main factors determine the limits of the PVHC [36]:”
From Stochastic Approach for Increasing the PV Hosting Capacity of a Low-Voltage Distribution Network (2022) · cites this paper as [36]
Power quality standards and thermal limits are crucial for LV networks.
“Hereafter, we focus only on power quality standards and thermal limits, which are crucial for LV networks [36].”
From Stochastic Approach for Increasing the PV Hosting Capacity of a Low-Voltage Distribution Network (2022) · cites this paper as [36]
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Umoh, V., Davidson, I., Adebiyi, A., & Ekpe, U. (2023) · Energies · doi:10.3390/en16083609 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
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Bendík, J., Cenký, M., Cintula, B., Beláń, A., Eleschová, Ž., & Janiga, P. (2022) · Processes · doi:10.3390/pr11010009 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
- Authors
- Martin, W., Stauffer, Y., Ballif, C., Hutter, A., & Alet, P.-J.
- Affiliations
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland) (CH)
- Venue
- 2018 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2018-10
- Pages
- 1-6
- OpenAlex
- W4249966128
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 1.20
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Optimal Power Flow Distribution
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Smart Grid Energy Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Microgrid Control and Optimization
- Keywords
- photovoltaic hosting capacity, distribution networks, power quality, power factor control
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