Ancillary services in active distribution networks: A review of technological trends from operational and online analysis perspective

GC Kryonidis, EO Kontis, TA Papadopoulos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Originally, ancillary services (ASs) were provided by large-scale power plants to ensure the
secure and reliable operation of power systems. However, with the advent of renewable …

Levelised cost of PV integration for distribution networks

O Gandhi, CD Rodríguez-Gallegos, W Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
High and continuously increasing photovoltaic (PV) penetration in distribution network
introduces many potential power system problems. One of the most important, and often the …

Voltage rise mitigation in PV rich LV distribution networks using DC/DC converter level active power curtailment method

P Verma, N Katal, B Sharma, S Chowdhury… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In low voltage (LV) distribution systems, the problem of overvoltage is common during the
lower load intervals. This problem arises because of the high value of R/X ration of these …

Adaptive coordination of sequential droop control for PV inverters to mitigate voltage rise in PV-Rich LV distribution networks

TT Mai, ANMM Haque, PP Vergara, PH Nguyen… - Electric Power Systems …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an adaptive sequential droop control strategy for PV inverters to
mitigate voltage rise problems in PV-rich LV distribution networks. To facilitate the effective …

An Equitable Active Power Curtailment Framework for Overvoltage Mitigation in PV-Rich Active Distribution Networks

EEE Ahmed, A Demirci, G Poyrazoglu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are various active power curtailment (APC) approaches to mitigate overvoltage. In PV-
rich networks, the overvoltage happens to be especially at the end of the distribution …

Active power management in low voltage networks with high photovoltaics penetration based on prosumers' self-consumption

AI Nousdilis, GC Christoforidis, GK Papagiannis - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Increase of photovoltaic (PV) systems penetration in distribution networks is being
challenged by technical barriers, especially in low voltage (LV) networks, such as over …

A coordinated droop control strategy for overvoltage mitigation in active distribution networks

GC Kryonidis, EO Kontis, AI Chrysochos… - … on Smart Grid, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a centralized control strategy for low-voltage networks is proposed, aiming to
coordinate the droop characteristics of the distributed renewable energy sources. The main …

A unified control strategy for voltage regulation and congestion management in active distribution networks

KD Pippi, GC Kryonidis, AI Nousdilis… - Electric Power Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
The advent of distributed renewable energy sources (DRESs) has led to a series of technical
issues affecting the secure and reliable operation of active distribution networks. Among …

Fairness-aware photovoltaic generation limits for voltage regulation in power distribution networks using conservative linear approximations

RK Gupta, P Buason… - 2024 IEEE Texas Power …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a framework for fairly cur-tailing photovoltaic (PV) plants in response to
the over-voltage problem in PV-rich distribution networks. The framework im-poses PV …

Improving fairness in photovoltaic curtailments via daily topology reconfiguration for voltage control in power distribution networks

RK Gupta, DK Molzahn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07853, 2024 - arxiv.org
In PV-rich power distribution systems, over-voltage issues are often addressed by curtailing
excess generation from PV plants (in addition to reactive power control), raising fairness …