access icon free Determining the sizes of renewable DGs considering seasonal variation of generation and load and their impact on system load growth

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Received 04/08/2017, Accepted 18/12/2017, Revised 24/11/2017, Published 21/12/2017

In this study, a methodology for determining the solar and wind DG (distributed generation) capacity is proposed by using sequential optimisation method considering a seasonal variation of load demand, seasonal solar, and wind variations. The load demand profile is collected from state load dispatch centre; whereas solar data are collected from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and wind data are collected from a weather station. Along with the DGs, the shunt capacitors are also placed to improve the voltage profile and energy loss reduction with different scenarios. For this purpose, minimisation of a multi-objective function is considered. The proposed methodology is applied to a 69-bus distribution network. The results for different scenarios show the substantial reduction in the annual energy loss and improvement of voltage profile. The result also shows that maximum amount of profit is gained with both renewable DGs and shunt capacitors. The impact of load growth on the distribution network with and without renewable DGs and shunt capacitors are compared. The analysis reveals that with integrating the renewable DGs and shunt capacitors in the system, the distribution network can take load growth for few more years without violating the system constraints.

Inspec keywords: wind power plants; distributed power generation; power generation economics; power distribution economics; minimisation; power generation dispatch; solar power stations; power capacitors

Other keywords: shunt capacitor; distributed generation; seasonal variation; load demand profile collection; load demand; 69-bus distribution network; system load growth; renewable DG; sequential optimisation method; annual energy loss reduction; multiobjective function; wind variation; wind DG determination; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; minimisation; state load dispatch centre; voltage profile; solar DG determination

Subjects: Distribution networks; Power system management, operation and economics; Wind power plants; Optimisation techniques; Distributed power generation; Solar power stations and photovoltaic power systems

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