Methods to Determine Recommended Feeder-Wide Advanced Inverter Settings for Improving Distribution System Performance

Fei Ding; Barry Mather; Matthew Rylander; Matthew Reno; Jimmy Quiroz; Huijuan Li; Robert Broderick; Jeff Smith

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749843

Methods to Determine Recommended Feeder-Wide Advanced Inverter Settings for Improving Distribution System Performance

Fei Ding, Barry Mather, Matthew Rylander, Matthew Reno, Jimmy Quiroz, Huijuan Li, Robert Broderick, Jeff Smith

Power Systems Engineering

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Abstract

This paper describes methods that a distribution engineer could use to determine advanced inverter settings to improve distribution system performance. These settings are for fixed power factor, volt-var, and volt-watt functionality. Depending on the level of detail that is desired, different methods are proposed to determine single settings applicable for all advanced inverters on a feeder or unique settings for each individual inverter. Seven distinctly different utility distribution feeders are analyzed to simulate the potential benefit in terms of hosting capacity, system losses, and reactive power attained with each method to determine the advanced inverter settings.

Original language	American English
Pages	1393-1398
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749843 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749843
State	Published - 18 Nov 2016
Event	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016 - Portland, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

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Conference	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	5/06/16 → 10/06/16

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NREL/CP-5D00-67967

Keywords

advanced inverters
distribution system
hosting capacity
photovoltaics

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Ding, F., Mather, B., Rylander, M., Reno, M., Quiroz, J., Li, H., Broderick, R., & Smith, J. (2016). Methods to Determine Recommended Feeder-Wide Advanced Inverter Settings for Improving Distribution System Performance. 1393-1398. Paper presented at 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016, Portland, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749843, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749843

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