Impacts of Voltage-Based Grid Support Functions on Energy Production of PV Customers

Julieta Giraldez Miner; Michael Emmanuel; Anderson Hoke; Siddharth Suryanarayanan

doi:10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973469

Impacts of Voltage-Based Grid Support Functions on Energy Production of PV Customers

Julieta Giraldez Miner, Michael Emmanuel, Anderson Hoke, Siddharth Suryanarayanan

Power Systems Engineering

Colorado State University

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Abstract

This paper presents the impact of inverter grid-support functions (GSFs) on photovoltaic (PV) customer energy production on a real distribution feeder in Oahu, HI. These autonomous GSFs based on local voltage measurements are good alternatives to increase PV hosting capacity. However, these functions can result in PV energy curtailment to the customer, and this study addresses the concerns about the impact of inverter GSFs through detailed quasi-static time series (QSTS) simulations. It proposes four metrics: maximum and average GSF curtailment, average increased generation and average net generation change, to assess the impact of a given control on PV systems located on customer sites. It was found that curtailment of PV production is negligible for customers where peak voltage is within ANSI C84.1 range. A reliable relationship between curtailment and peak customer voltage is demonstrated, suggesting that peak voltage could be used as an indicator of customer curtailment.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973469 https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973469
State	Published - Aug 2019
Event	2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019 - Atlanta, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2019 → 8 Aug 2019

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Conference	2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	4/08/19 → 8/08/19

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See NREL/CP-5D00-72701 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-76229

Keywords

active power control
advanced inverter control
Photovoltaic
reactive power control
voltage control

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