Impact of high level penetration of photovoltaics on Power system

IMPACT OF INCREASED
PENETRATION OF
PHOTOVOLTAICS ON POWER
SYSTEMS
PRESENTED BY:
MUWAFFAQ USMAN
M.TECH POWER SYSTEMS
ROLL N0:6

OUTLINE
• INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS PENETRATION?
• VOLTAGE PROFILE
• POWER FACTOR
• HARMONICS
• SYSTEM STABILITY
• PROTECTION ISSUES
• REMEDIAL MEASURES
• CONCLUSION
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INTRODUCTION
• A rapid growth is observed in the installation of solar photovoltaic
systems and would increase in the upcoming years.
• The development of power electronic devices & fast acting controllers
made it possible to integrate solar PV systems to existing grids at
distribution levels.
• With the decreasing prices of PV panels, coupled with government
financial incentives, has promoted the used of solar plants.
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CONT.
• Many of these grids were designed to operate with conventional
power houses at one end.
• Structural changes in power systems result in new concerns regarding
the reliable and secure operation of systems with high penetration of
renewable energy.
• Integration of Photovoltaics has both positive as well as negative
impacts on the power grid.

WHAT IS PENETRATION?
• Penetration is defined as the ratio of nameplate PV power rating to
the maximum load seen on the distribution feeder [4].
• PV penetration (%) =
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑉 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝑀𝑊)
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝑀𝑊)
[1].

ADVANTAGES OF PV PENETRATION
• Less pollution
• Low maintenance
• Minimization of transmission loss
• Reduce the stress on the power system

VOLTAGE PROFILE
• In high or low penetration conditions, this results in over voltages and
results in changes in power flow.
• Increased penetration can cause improper selection of tap setting for the
distribution transformer.
• Excess power generated by solar PV during low demand period must
export the active power to grid which results in over voltages and reverse
power flow.

VOLTAGE PROFILE WITH AND WIHTOUT PV
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CONT.
• High penetration of PV can result in voltage instability
• Intermitted nature of PV is the reason for voltage fluctuations in grid
connected PV.
• Passing of clouds, angle of incidences also play a major role in driving
the system to instability by means of voltage fluctuations.
• The voltage regulation becomes difficult during high level penetration
due to tap setting of the distribution transformer.

VOLTAGE FLUCTUATION
• Voltage quality is affected by intermittency of PV power output in
distribution systems
• Climatic changes can create irradiance fluctuations either for a short
period or long periods.
• Voltage problems of system that has solar PV can be characterized as
voltage rise, voltage unbalance and flickers in the network.

VOLTAGE UNBALANCE
• Voltage unbalance is a consequence of line voltages not being equal.
• Caused by uneven distribution of single-phase loads on a three-phase
system.
• PV sources also contribute to unbalance as they generate power on
only one phase.
• Unbalance of 2.5% to 3% or greater is unacceptably high
Calculated as:
max( , , )
100 %a b c
unb
avg
dV dV dV
V
V


POWER FACTOR
• Grid connected PV systems operate at unit power factor & the power
produced by the PV is active power.
• Active power for the demand is provided by PV and reactive power is
provided by the grid.
• In effect this reduces the power factor, as the grid is then supplying
less active power, but the same amount of reactive power.
• The PV inverter can be made to provide reactive power, improving the
voltage regulation and power factor. Unfortunately this can interfere
with most anti islanding schemes.

HARMONICS
• Penetration of PV systems into the distribution grid causes harmonic
distortion of current and voltage waves.
• Its due to the conversion of DC current in order to synchronize with
the AC supply by utilizing an inverter.
• PV inverters are the main source to inject current harmonics to the
system.
• Produced harmonics can cause series and parallel resonance,
overheating equipment, misoperation of protection devices.
• Harmonic filters can be used to overcome this.

DC BIAS
• When the inverter is not properly designed, there is a chance that it
will introduce DC bias into the system
• DC bias will increase transformer core loss as it will cause the heating
of windings and saturation of transformer core.

SYSTEM STABILITY
• Depending on PV penetration level, a portion of the generation is
transferred to the locations closer to the loads which may alter the
amount of reactive power supplied to the load.
• High PV penetration results in replacing large scale generating units
with the PV systems can limit the availability of reactive power.
• This is because most of the PV systems provide active power only.
• Increased PV penetration will also result in reduced inertia within the
system which can cause potential rotor angle stability problems.

STEADY STATE STABILITY
• Ability of the system to maintain a steady state equilibrium while
satisfying system constrains.
• High PV penetration levels can result in variations of bus voltage
magnitudes.
• Steady state voltages increases as the PV penetration increases.
• Increase in PV penetration, reactive power export decreases while
reactive power generated by the generators increase.

TRANSIENT STABILITY
• Ability of power system to maintain synchronism during large
disturbances.
• Disturbances range from equipment, line outages to could cover
incase of PV systems.
• System inertia plays a key role in transient stability.
• High PV penetration results in low inertia of system and can lead to
potential transient stability issues.

CONT.
• Power system tend to have larger oscillations during post fault
transients when PV systems are present.
• Thus power system is more perturbed with higher PV penetration
levels.
• Power systems employed with PV shows increased voltage dips
during the transients.

CONT.
Relative rotor angle of generators with and without PV during fault.
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CONT.
• Dependent on the weather conditions, the output of PV systems can
fluctuate due to cloud transients etc.
• As the amount of PV penetration increases the voltage fluctuations
increase.
• DG solar PV systems can trip simultaneously due to a single system
event such as extreme voltage dip condition.
• Modern PV inverters are equipped with Low Voltage Ride Through
Capability (LVRT) which improves transient stability.

PROTECTION ISSUES
• The protection issues of grid integrated solar PV systems are
1. Change of short circuit levels
2. Reverse power flow
3. Islanding

1. CHANGE OF SHORT CIRCUIT LEVEL
• High penetration of PV systems result in higher fault current
compared to systems without PV.
• This is because during a fault PV systems continue to inject current
into the feeder until islanding condition is detected and breakers are
open.
• This leads to further damage of the grid causing conductor damage or
damage to transformer.

2. REVERSE POWER FLOW
• Power flow is unidirectional in radial distribution systems, hence the
protection schemes are designed accordingly.
• DG connected can cause alteration in the coordination of the relay
due to reversal in power.
• This is also explained in the voltage profile.

3. ISLANDING
• The higher the PV penetration into the distribution grid, the greater
the chances of islanding which the PV continues to supply local loads
even after supply loads even after utility fault.
• If the protection relays do not detect islanding, then the inverters
may remain online and pose a serious threat to equipment and
service personnel.

REMEDIAL MEASURES
• Increased PV penetration has positive and negative effects on the
power system.
• However above a particular level of penetration its observed to have
significant detrimental effects on the power system.
• Higher PV penetration causes voltage rise, stability, harmonics, poor
power factor and protection issues.
• These effects are not significant for lower penetration levels.
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CONT.
• Thus solar PV systems can be operated at safe penetration levels.
• Penetration limit stems from the technical ability of the grid to
reliability integrate distributed solar capacity.
• At present there is no perfect rule for determining the penetration
limits.
• Penetration limit is dependent on factors
1. Load
2. Consumer behavior
3. Climate etc.

CONT.
• Penetration limits can be found by simulations.
• At present PV penetration issues are of concern for European nations
like Germany, Italy, Greece and others.
• Penetration level varies from region to region.
• In India CEA has approved for a penetration level of 10-15%.

CONCLUSION
• Use of grid integrated PV systems are increasing rapidly.
• PV penetration can have both positive and negative effects on the
grid.
• The detrimental effects of grid integration can be avoided limiting the
penetration levels within safe limits.
• There is no definite rule to determine the safe penetration level.
• Safe penetration level is dependent on many factors of the grid and
varies from region to region.

REFERENCES
1. Eftekharnejad, S; Vittal, V. ; Heydt, G.T. ; Keel, B.Loehr, J., “ Impact of Increased
Penetration of Photovoltaic Generation on Power Systems” IEEE transactions on
power system, May 2015, pages 893-901
2. Hasheminamin, M. Agelidis, V.G. ; Salehi, V. ; Teodorescu, R.Agelidis, V.G. ; Salehi,
V. ; Teodorescu, R. ; Hredzak, B.; “ Index-Based Assessment of Voltage Rise and
Reverse Power Flow Phenomenon in Distribution Feeder Under High PV
Penetration ” IEEE Journal of photovoltaics, June 2015, pages 1158-1168
3. Cheng, D.; Mather, B.A. ; Seguin, R. ; Hambrick, J. Mather, B.A. ; Seguin,
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4. Baran, M.E.Hooshyar, H. ; Zhan Shen ; Huang, A. “Accommodating High PV
Penetration on Distribution Feeders” IEEE transactions on smart grid , June 2014,
pages 1039-1046
5. Shichao Liu, P. X. Liu , Xiaoyu Wang “Stochastic Small-signal stability Analysis of grid
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January 2016
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