| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 69, 2018
International Conference Green Energy and Smart Grids (GESG 2018)
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| Article Number | 01009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 11 | |
| Section | Properties, Regimes and Development of Renewable Energy Sources | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186901009 | |
| Published online | 27 November 2018 | |
Decentralized Control of PV Inverter to Mitigate Voltage Rise in Resistive Feeder
Department of Electrical Engineering National Sun Yat-sen University Taiwan
* Corresponding author: tllee@mail.ee.nsysu.edu.tw
Increasing installation of photovoltaic (PV) in the distribution power system has resulted in serious voltage rise, limiting grid-connectable power. This scenario becomes significant in the low-voltage resistive feeder. This paper proposes a decentralized control for distributed PV inverters to mitigate voltage rise. Instead of MPPT (maximum power point tracking) mode, the proposed PV inverter is able to curtail its real power and compensate the reactive power according to the impedance at the installation location. The drooped characteristics between the output power and the impedance are developed so that the PV inverters are able to cooperatively suppress voltage rise based on their local voltage measurement only. Therefore, PV inverters are allowed to supply more power to the utility within voltage limitation. Simulations are conducted to guarantee the proposed control on improvement of voltage rise considering different parameter of feeder. A lab-scaled prototype circuit is established to verify effectiveness in a resistive feeder.
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