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Title: Coordinated Use of Smart Inverters with Legacy Voltage Regulating Devices in Distribution Systems with High Distributed PV Penetration — Increase CVR Energy Savings

Abstract

This paper studies the coordinated use of smart inverters with legacy voltage regulating devices to help increase the energy savings from conservation voltage reduction (CVR) in distribution systems with high photovoltaic penetration. Two voltage optimization algorithms are developed to evaluate the CVR benefit by considering two types of smart inverter functions: aggregated reactive power control and autonomous volt/VAR control. In each algorithm, smart inverters are coordinately controlled with the operation of legacy voltage regulating devices including load tap changers and capacitor banks. Both algorithms are tested on representative utility distribution system models. In conclusion, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms can achieve around 1.8-3.6% energy savings when only using legacy voltage regulating devices and an additional 0.3-0.9% when adding smart inverters.

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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1465651
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5D00-70255
Journal ID: ISSN 1949-3053; MainId:19228;UUID:93c08e41-08aa-e711-9c0f-2c44fd93e385;MainAdminID:7706
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1949-3053
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; photovoltaic; smart inverter; volt/VAR; CVR; reactive power control; energy saving; power quality

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Ding, Fei, and Baggu, Murali. Coordinated Use of Smart Inverters with Legacy Voltage Regulating Devices in Distribution Systems with High Distributed PV Penetration — Increase CVR Energy Savings. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1109/tsg.2018.2857410.
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Ding, Fei, & Baggu, Murali. Coordinated Use of Smart Inverters with Legacy Voltage Regulating Devices in Distribution Systems with High Distributed PV Penetration — Increase CVR Energy Savings. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2018.2857410
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Ding, Fei, and Baggu, Murali. Wed . "Coordinated Use of Smart Inverters with Legacy Voltage Regulating Devices in Distribution Systems with High Distributed PV Penetration — Increase CVR Energy Savings". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2018.2857410. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465651.
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@article{osti_1465651,
title = {Coordinated Use of Smart Inverters with Legacy Voltage Regulating Devices in Distribution Systems with High Distributed PV Penetration — Increase CVR Energy Savings},
author = {Ding, Fei and Baggu, Murali},
abstractNote = {This paper studies the coordinated use of smart inverters with legacy voltage regulating devices to help increase the energy savings from conservation voltage reduction (CVR) in distribution systems with high photovoltaic penetration. Two voltage optimization algorithms are developed to evaluate the CVR benefit by considering two types of smart inverter functions: aggregated reactive power control and autonomous volt/VAR control. In each algorithm, smart inverters are coordinately controlled with the operation of legacy voltage regulating devices including load tap changers and capacitor banks. Both algorithms are tested on representative utility distribution system models. In conclusion, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms can achieve around 1.8-3.6% energy savings when only using legacy voltage regulating devices and an additional 0.3-0.9% when adding smart inverters.},
doi = {10.1109/tsg.2018.2857410},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid},
number = 3,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {7}
}
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