TY - GEN
T1 - Coordinated voltage control strategy for voltage regulators and voltage source converters integrated distribution system
AU - Ahmed, Muhammad
AU - Bhattarai, Rojan
AU - Hossain, Sheikh Jakir
AU - Abdelrazek, Sherif
AU - Kamalasadan, Sukumar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/8
Y1 - 2017/11/8
N2 - Modern day distribution systems (DS) is now hosting increasing number of both small and large scale distributed energy resources (DERs). Even though these DERs have capability to support reactive power along with the active power they provide, practitioners are still hesitant in utilizing the reactive power potential from these DERs. One of the major concerns for the distribution system operator is the coordination between the existing voltage regulators and the inverter based reactive power sources in the DS. This paper presents a situational aware and agnostic coordinated control strategy for voltage regulation in the DS considering power electronic based inverters as reactive power sources that work in conjunction with the existing legacy controllers for an overall value based voltage regulation of the entire feeder. It has also been shown that this can be achieved without major changes in the communication framework currently utilized by the utility (another concern for DS operator). The proposed control technique has been tested in the field verified model of a real feeder. Results show that the proposed coordination approach has a major economic as well and power quality benefits in the operation of DS.
AB - Modern day distribution systems (DS) is now hosting increasing number of both small and large scale distributed energy resources (DERs). Even though these DERs have capability to support reactive power along with the active power they provide, practitioners are still hesitant in utilizing the reactive power potential from these DERs. One of the major concerns for the distribution system operator is the coordination between the existing voltage regulators and the inverter based reactive power sources in the DS. This paper presents a situational aware and agnostic coordinated control strategy for voltage regulation in the DS considering power electronic based inverters as reactive power sources that work in conjunction with the existing legacy controllers for an overall value based voltage regulation of the entire feeder. It has also been shown that this can be achieved without major changes in the communication framework currently utilized by the utility (another concern for DS operator). The proposed control technique has been tested in the field verified model of a real feeder. Results show that the proposed coordination approach has a major economic as well and power quality benefits in the operation of DS.
KW - Coordinated control
KW - Distribution system
KW - Reactive power support
KW - Voltage regulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044175141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IAS.2017.8101780
DO - 10.1109/IAS.2017.8101780
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044175141
T3 - 2017 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2017
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - 2017 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2017
Y2 - 1 October 2017 through 5 October 2017
ER -