Integration of Fuel Cell Micro-CHPS on Low Voltage Grid: A Danish Case Study

Author

You, Shi ; Marra, Francesco ; Træholt, Chresten

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The future significance of fuel cell (FC) powered micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) units in meeting the residential energy demands is set to increase, which may have a considerable impact on the low voltage (LV) grid. The objective of this paper is to investigate into the related technical issues using a Danish case study with different penetration levels of uncoordinated FC micro-CHPs. Based on the findings, it is recommended to design grid oriented integration strategies such as Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) for achieving future smart grids with a large roll out of distributed energy resources (DER).

Keywords

cogeneration; energy resources; fuel cell power plants; smart power grids; Danish case study; LV grid; VPP; distributed energy resources; fuel cell microCHP; fuel cell powered micro combined heat and power units; grid oriented integration strategies; low voltage grid; penetration levels; residential energy demands; smart grids; technical issues; uncoordinated FC microCHP; virtual power plants; Cogeneration; Electricity; Fuel cells; Load modeling; Loading; Resistance heating;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2157-4839

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0545-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2012.6306951

Filename

6306951