Increasing penetration level of photovoltaic (PV) distributed generation (DG)
into distribution networks will have many impacts on nominal circuit operating
conditions including voltage quality and reverse power flow issues. In U.S.
most studies on PVDG impacts on distribution networks are performed for west
coast and central states. The objective of this paper is to study the impacts
of PVDG integration on local distribution network based on real-world settings
for network parameters and time-series analysis. PVDG penetration level is
considered to find the hosting capacity of the network without having major
issues in terms of voltage quality and reverse power flow. Time-series analyses
show that distributed installation of PVDGs on commercial buses has the maximum
network energy loss reduction and larger penetration ratios for them.
Additionally, the penetration ratio thresholds for which there will be no power
quality and reverse power flow issues and optimal allocation of PVDG and
penetration levels are identified for different installation scenarios.Comment: To be published (Accepted) in: 12th IEEE PES PowerTech Conference,
Manchester, UK, 201