Competitiveness of reactive power compensation using PV inverter in distribution system

Abstract:

With the increasing adoption of photovoltaic systems (PVs) in distribution system, many researchers and commercial companies have proposed to utilise PV inverters for local reactive power compensation (RPC). However, the technical and economic competitiveness of the inverters have not been compared against traditional reactive power devices such as switched capacitors (SCs). This work fills the gap through multi-objective optimization of reactive power dispatch with technical and economic objectives for both PVs and SCs. Extensive sensitivity analyses were performed to determine the scenarios in which one technology is more competitive than the other.

Año de publicación:

2017

Keywords:

• Photovoltaic inverters
• Distribution System
• photovoltaic systems
• Reactive power dispatch optimization
• Switched capacitors

Fuente:

scopus