Impact of rooftop photovoltaics on the distribution system

KA Alboaouh, S Mohagheghi - Journal of Renewable Energy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a review of the impact of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) panels on the
distribution grid. This includes how rooftop PVs affect voltage quality, power losses, and the …

A review of power distribution test feeders in the United States and the need for synthetic representative networks

FE Postigo Marcos, C Mateo Domingo… - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
Under the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources and new smart network
technologies, distribution utilities face new challenges and opportunities to ensure reliable …

Short-circuit analysis models for unbalanced inverter-based distributed generation sources and loads

I Kim - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inverter-based distributed generation (IBDG) sources are continually being connected to the
grid. Such IBDG sources act as current sources that are unbalanced in either one or two …

Distribution system costs associated with the deployment of photovoltaic systems

KAW Horowitz, B Palmintier, B Mather… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The broadening of our energy system to include increasing amounts of wind and solar has
led to significant debate about the total costs and benefits associated with different types of …

A calculation method for the short-circuit current contribution of current-control inverter-based distributed generation sources at balanced conditions

I Kim - Electric Power Systems Research, 2021 - Elsevier
When a grid-connected inverter-based distributed generation (IBDG) source behaves as a
current source that can limit its magnitude in current loop control, the contribution from the …

Smart inverter impacts on california distribution feeders with increasing pv penetration: A case study

ZK Pecenak, J Kleissl, VR Disfani - 2017 IEEE Power & Energy …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The impacts of high PV penetration on distribution feeders have been well documented
within the last decade. To mitigate these impacts, interconnection standards have been …

Optimal distributed generation allocation for reactive power control

I Kim - IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
One of the main concerns of utilities is to minimise voltage variations along their feeders
when they enhance their networks by various distributed generation (DG) systems that have …

Optimal capacity of storage systems and photovoltaic systems able to control reactive power using the sensitivity analysis method

I Kim - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
As weather-dependent distributed renewable energy resources (RERs) such as photovoltaic
(PV) systems and wind farms have increasingly been connected to distribution networks …

The optimal allocation of distributed generators considering fault current and levelized cost of energy using the particle swarm optimization method

B Kim, N Rusetskii, H Jo, I Kim - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The power requirements of grids have risen as artificial intelligence and electric vehicle
technologies have been used. Thus, the installation of distributed generators (DGs) has …

On the limitations of volt-var control in PV-rich residential LV networks: A UK case study

AT Procopiou, LF Ochoa - 2019 IEEE Milan PowerTech, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Residential-scale photovoltaic (PV) inverters available in the market are embedded with two
key functions designed to help mitigating voltage rise issues: Volt-Watt and Volt-var. Volt-var …