Facilitating the Technical Network Integration of Distributed PV Generation

Competitive advantage

• Comprehensive characterisation which describes the behaviour of PV generation variability over the course of the day and over the course of the year
• The creation of a simple and efficient method for estimating the level of PV generation a low-voltage feeder can accommodate without exceeding upper voltage limits

Impact

• Simple and efficient methods for estimating maximum distributed generation capacity of a feeder that require no new communication infrastructure and are shown to be more efficient and equitable than similar methods currently proposed
• A tool through which network and microgrid operators can quickly and easily determine approximate values of maximum PV generation for their distribution feeders
• An original distributed voltage control method using residential PV systems and controllable loads to ensure voltage levels, upper and lower, are maintained within regulation limits

Successful outcomes

• Feeder modelling for distribution operators

Capabilities and facilities

• Software tools to expedite analysis of feeder capability
• Realtime digital simulation facilities to verify models

Our partners

• APVI
• Endeavour Energy
• ARENA