LAPSE:2018.1131
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LAPSE:2018.1131
Quantification and Mitigation of Unfairness in Active Power Curtailment of Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Using Sensitivity Based Coordinated Control
Aadil Latif, Wolfgang Gawlik, Peter Palensky
November 28, 2018
With increasing photovoltaic (PV) penetration in low voltage networks (LVNs), voltage regulation is a challenge. Active power curtailment (APC) is one possible solution for mitigating over voltages resulting from active power injection in LVNs. There is an inherent unfairness in the APC scheme. When generation is high and consumption is low, the voltages at the end of the feeder tend to be the highest. This results in high curtailment of active power output of the inverters located at the end of the feeder and low or even no curtailment for the inverts located closer to the transformer. A secondary voltage controller has been implemented to mitigate this unfairness in APC based voltage support schemes. The focus of this work is to quantify this unfairness and develop methods that enable residential PV owners serviced by the same feeder to participate equally in voltage regulation in the LVN.
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active power curtailment (APC), coordinated control, over-voltage, sensitivity based control
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Latif A, Gawlik W, Palensky P. Quantification and Mitigation of Unfairness in Active Power Curtailment of Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Using Sensitivity Based Coordinated Control. (2018). LAPSE:2018.1131
Author Affiliations
Latif A: Energy Department, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna 1210, Austria
Gawlik W: Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 1040, Austria [ORCID]
Palensky P: Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CD, The Netherlands
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Energies
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9
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6
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E436
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2016
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2016-06-04
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1996-1073
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