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Fair control of distributed PV plants in low voltage grids

Gueissaz, Numa
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Christakou, Konstantina  
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Le Boudec, Jean-Yves  
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September 26, 2017
Proc. of the 2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)
2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)

In this paper we evaluate the potential of distributed photovoltaic (PV) plants for providing primary voltage control to the local distribution grid. Compared to the existing literature, we design an algorithm that schedules the nodal active and reactive powers of the controllable resources using a fair objective given by the active power injected by the distributed PV plants. Additionally, we propose both a centralized and a distributed version of the control algorithm. The latter is based on a dual decomposition framework and allows each controllable resource to schedule its power production independently of the others. We evaluate the proposed algorithms using the CIGRE LV benchmark grid and we show that (i) both algorithms are able to maintain a voltage profile within acceptable limits for safe operation and (ii) the distributed version of the algorithm converges to the same solution as the centralized one.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260294
Author(s)
Gueissaz, Numa
Christakou, Konstantina  
Le Boudec, Jean-Yves  
Paolone, Mario  
Date Issued

2017-09-26

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

Turin, Italy

Published in
Proc. of the 2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-1953-7

978-1-5386-1952-0

978-1-5386-1954-4

Volume

1

Issue

1

Start page

1

End page

6

Subjects

Voltage control

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Distributed optimization

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Active distribution networks

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Low voltage power distribution

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PV plants

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LCA2  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)

Turin, Italy

26-29 Sept. 2017

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August 1, 2018
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