Studying the effects of distributed generation on voltage regulation

摘要

The focus of this work is to introduce the power distribution community to the effects distributed generation has on distribution systems. Specifically, changes in the voltage profiles and operation of voltage regulation are studied. A distribution system model equipped with Line Drop Compensation is developed and integrated into the PSCAD/EMTDC(TM) simulation environment. Distributed generation is added to the simulation environment to observe its effects on the traditional voltage regulation scheme. An algorithm from previous research that mitigates these effects is analysed and sample calculations are performed in MATLAB(TM) for validation. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]