Maximum Permissible Integration Capacity of Renewable DG Units Based on System Loads

Kadir Doğanşahin, Bedri Kekezoğlu, Recep Yumurtacı, Ozan Erdinç and João P. S. Catalão
Additional contact information
Kadir Doğanşahin: Department of Electrical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Bedri Kekezoğlu: Department of Electrical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Recep Yumurtacı: Department of Electrical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Ozan Erdinç: Department of Electrical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
João P. S. Catalão: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Increasing demand for electricity, as well as rising environmental and economic concerns have resulted in renewable energy sources being a center of attraction. Integration of these renewable energy resources into power systems is usually achieved through distributed generation (DG) techniques, and the number of such applications increases daily. As conventional power systems do not have an infrastructure that is compatible with these energy sources and generation systems, such integration applications may cause various problems in power systems. Therefore, planning is an essential part of DG integration, especially for power systems with intermittent renewable energy sources with the objective of minimizing problems and maximizing benefits. In this study, a mathematical model is proposed to calculate the maximum permissible DG integration capacity without causing overvoltage problems in the power systems. In the proposed mathematical model, both the minimum loading condition and maximum generation condition are taken into consideration. In order to prove the effectiveness and the consistency of the proposed mathematical model, it is applied to a test system with different case studies, and the results are compared with the results obtained from other models in the literature.

Keywords: renewable energy; distributed generation; maximum permissible capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/1/255/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/1/255/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:11:y:2018:i:1:p:255-:d:127982

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().