Assignment: – 02
Ali Qureshi
Methodology to Reduce Power Losses and to improve Voltage profile in
Distribution System by using DER’s
(Extended Abstract)
Muhammad Shehzad Aslam
17MS-EP-09
1. Abstract
Distribution generation is an efficient and rapidly increasing approach to
reduce power losses and improve low voltages in an electric network. Day
by day increased electric load has a technical impact in distribution
network and can be reduce by Distribution Energy Sources. Low voltage
profile, distribution power losses and unavailability of energy sources are
technical issues. Suggested solution is to place renewable energy sources
near load consumption centers that can be helpful to reduce energy losses
and can increase voltage profile. Analysis of power system has to be done
on low voltage radial distribution system of different buses which has
lowest voltage then rated voltage and in maximum consumption center.
Voltage and power losses are main objectives to determine the ideal
location and size of distribution generation source in the proposed network
with case studies that without DES losses and voltage in network are
greater and with DES losses and voltage are reduced to lowest level which
is beneficial to electric distribution companies.
Keywords: Voltage drop. Power losses. DER’s. Optimization. Distribution
network.
2. Introduction
Renewable energy sources immerged as good alternative to
conventional energy sources. The need of renewable energy
source as DES’s are increased in power system. The main
focus is to correctly analyze the effect of these sources on
power system. The main objective of this study is to locate
the ideal position in electric feeders to place renewable
energy source to overcome the power losses in transmitting
power to load consumers, voltage variations and to improve
power quality as well as reliability. Therefore the proposed
solution is to implement DER’s scheme to end users of utility
consumption to fulfill customer local demand or either
integrated with grid supply.
By inserting DER’s has come with major effects of power
transfer to load consumers in bi-directional way of power
flow from grid side and other from DER’s side with benefits
of reduce voltage variation and reduces power losses. To find
location in power system is very important that DER’s
operate at its full rated capacity for sufficiently effective to
power system and undesirable effects on distribution
network.
To find proper location case studies have to be done
i. Study of Power System without DES’s
ii. Study of Power System with DES’s
3. Case I: Study of Power System without DES’s
For the analysis a radial distribution network low voltage
feeder taken under study and detail study of voltage drops and
active power and reactive power losses has to be done on all
busses of feeder.
The load flow analysis of this system generally has to be done
by ETAP, NEPLON etc.
Submitted to: Dr. M.
Hassan Zahid Najam ul Hassan
17MS-EP-10 17MS-EP-11
Load flow analysis has done mathematically by newton
raphson method and gauss seidel method.
3.1. Case 2: Study of Power System with DES’s
By power analyzing of feeder high voltage drop and power
loss points find out and inserting of DER’s place point out
and again analysis of power feeding system has to be
analyzed with same parameters
4. Results:
In this paper DER’s units are used by selecting optimal
location and size of multiple DER’s units in RDN (radial
distribution network) in order to improve transmission losses,
voltages in electric network. The complete overview and
optimization of power system with distribution energy
sources was studied. DER’s units should be places in an
electric network to provide more efficient, practical as well
as environmental benefits. Without DER the voltages and
power losses were major at end of radial feeder but when
DER’s technique implemented then power losses and voltage
profile was improved which givers great rise in the efficiency
of radial distribution network
5. Discussion:
So renewable energy sources playing vital role in human
living style and in electric power system by an independent
source of energy and in combine grid connected facilities.
The usage of DER’s in power system is beneficial and can be
more helpful in future researches regarding electric system.
More than distribution energy resources scheme was also
proposed to meet local demand of power so to end user of
utility consumption customer.
6. References
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distribution network losses, Electric Power Systems Research, 97, 2013, pp.
10–18.
[2] G. Pepermans, J. Driesen, D. Haeseldonckx, R. Belmans, and W.
D’Haeseleer, “Distributed generation: definition, benefits and issues,”
Energy Policy, 33, 2005, pp. 787–798
[3] G. Vaskantiras, and S. You, “Value Assessment of Distribution Network
Reconfiguration: A Danish Case Study,” Energy Procedia 100, 2016, pp.
336 – 341.