Assessment of Conservation Voltage Reduction effects in networks with distributed generators

• Autor(a) principal: Quijano, D. A. [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Feltrin, A. Padilha [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISGT-LA.2015.7381188; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/168649
• topic: conservation voltage reduction; distributed generation; distribution systems; integrated Volt-Var control

Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) has been an efficient way to achieve power demand reduction and, consequently, a relief in distribution networks. In this work is presented an assessment of the distributed generation (DG) impacts on the efficiency achieved with the CVR. The DG is considered as a controllable source of active and reactive power through an approach based on an integrated Volt-Var control (IVVC). It is expected, that centralized control methodologies will be increasingly present in distribution networks, in a scenario with the so-called smart grids. The analysis is made for the network operation phase through a simulation-based method. Tests were performed on a 95 bus test system using the multiobjective algorithm NSGA-II as optimization tool. Conclusions are made by comparing scenarios of DG with and without reactive power control capability.