Voltage Profile Improvement by Integrating Renewable Resources with Utility Grid

Muhammad Bilal Ali, Syed Ali Abbas Kazmi, Zafar A. Khan (), Abdullah Altamimi, Mohammed A. Alghassab and Bader Alojaiman ()
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Muhammad Bilal Ali: U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Syed Ali Abbas Kazmi: U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Zafar A. Khan: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur A.K.10250, Pakistan
Abdullah Altamimi: Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Majmaah University, Al-Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed A. Alghassab: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shaqra University, Riyadh 11911, Saudi Arabia
Bader Alojaiman: Department of Computer Science, Community College, Shaqra University, Shaqra 11961, Saudi Arabia

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 22, 1-24

Abstract: There are three main parts of an electric power system—power generation, transmission, and distribution. For electric companies, it is a tough challenge to reduce losses of the power system and deliver lossless and reliable power from the generating station to the consumer end. Nowadays, modern power systems are more complex due to gradually increasing loads. In the electrical power system, especially in transmission and distribution networks, there are power losses due to many reasons such as overloading of the line, long distribution lines, low power factors, corona losses, and unsuitable conductor size. The main performance factor of the power system is reliability. Reliability means continuity of the power supply without any interruptions from the generating station to the demand side. Thus, due to these power losses, there are voltage stability problems and economic losses in the electrical system. The voltage stability of the power system can be increased by improving the voltage profile. In this paper, different techniques are analyzed that include the integration of wind power, the integration of photovoltaic power, and reactive power injection by integrating FACTS devices. These techniques are applied to the IEEE 57 bus system with standard data using simulation models developed in MATLAB. Thus, the results of the analysis of these techniques have been compared with each other.

Keywords: voltage stability; wind energy; photovoltaic energy; STATCOM; PSAT (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: 2022
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