High voltage direct current (HVDC) in applications for independent power providers

Author

Giraneza, M. ; Kahn, M.T.E.

Author_Institution

Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Cape Town, South Africa

fYear

2014

fDate

1-2 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The developments of power electronic devices have improved most of technical limitations that HVDC used to have. Nowadays HVDC is widely used for transmission of bulk power over long distances and for the interconnection of asynchronous grid. With the development of the HVDC, the growth of power demand also increased beyond the utilities capacities. In order to meet the actual power demand, utilities have to purchase power from independent power providers (IPP); which mostly are in renewable energies. The integration of those independent power productions within the grid is an issue. In this paper, IPPs challenges for grid integration are addressed and HVDC based strategies for the safe and reliable integration of renewable energies are presented.

Keywords

HVDC power transmission; power grids; renewable energy sources; HVDC; IPP; asynchronous grid; bulk power; grid integration; high voltage direct current; independent power productions; independent power providers; power demand; power electronic devices; renewable energies; utilities capacities; Electricity; HVDC transmission; Power conversion; Power generation; Reliability; Renewable energy sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Domestic Use of Energy (DUE), 2014 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-0-9922041-4-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DUE.2014.6827774

Filename

6827774