Active and Reactive Power Control of a PV Generator for Grid Code Compliance

Ana Cabrera-Tobar, Eduard Bullich-Massagué, Mònica Aragüés-Peñalba and Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt
Additional contact information
Ana Cabrera-Tobar: Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Técnica del Norte. Av. 17 de Julio, Ibarra 100107, Ecuador
Eduard Bullich-Massagué: Department d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Centre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionamients (CITCEA-UPC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC. Av. Diagonal 647, Pl. 2., 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Mònica Aragüés-Peñalba: Department d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Centre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionamients (CITCEA-UPC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC. Av. Diagonal 647, Pl. 2., 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt: Department d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Centre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionamients (CITCEA-UPC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC. Av. Diagonal 647, Pl. 2., 08028 Barcelona, Spain

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 20, 1-25

Abstract: As new grid codes have been created to permit the integration of large scale photovoltaic power plants into the transmission system, the enhancement of the local control of the photovoltaic (PV) generators is necessary. Thus, the objective of this paper is to present a local controller of active and reactive power to comply the new requirements asked by the transmission system operators despite the variation of ambient conditions without using extra devices. For this purpose, the control considers the instantaneous capability curves of the PV generator which vary due to the change of solar irradiance, temperature, dc voltage and modulation index. To validate the control, the PV generator is modeled in DIgSILENT PowerFactory ® and tested under different ambient conditions. The results show that the control developed can modify the active and reactive power delivered to the desired value at different solar irradiance and temperature.

Keywords: PV generators; active power; reactive power; Renewable energy; grid codes; capability curves (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: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/20/3872/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/20/3872/ (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:12:y:2019:i:20:p:3872-:d:275925

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 ().