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Voltage Quality and Power Factor Improvement in Smart Grids Using Controlled DG Units

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  • Ibrahim Ahmad

    (Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic)

  • Ghaeth Fandi

    (Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
    Department of Sustainable Technologies, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 961/129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic)

  • Zdenek Muller

    (Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic)

  • Josef Tlusty

    (Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
    Department of Health Care Disciplines and Population Protection, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Sportovců 2311, 272 01 Kladno, Czech Republic)

Abstract

The increased penetration of renewable energy sources in the electrical grid, due to the rapid increase of power demand and the need of diverse energy sources, has made distributed generation (DG) units an essential part of the modern electrical grid. The integration of many DG units in smart grids requires control and coordination between them, and the grid to maximize the benefits of the DG units. Smart grids and modern electronic devices require high standards of power quality, especially voltage quality. In this paper, a new methodology is presented to improve the voltage quality and power factor in smart grids. This method depends on using voltage variation and admittance values as inputs of a controller that controls the reactive power generation in all DG units. The results show that the controller is efficient in improving the voltage quality and power factor. Real data from an electrical network have been used in the simulation model in MATLAB Simulink to test the new approach.

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  • Ibrahim Ahmad & Ghaeth Fandi & Zdenek Muller & Josef Tlusty, 2019. "Voltage Quality and Power Factor Improvement in Smart Grids Using Controlled DG Units," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:18:p:3433-:d:264740
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