Title :
Grid voltage regulation utilizing storage batteries in PV solar — Wind plant based distributed generation system
Author :
Khadkikar, V. ; Varma, Rajiv K. ; Seethapathy, Ravi
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, a novel night-time application of a photovoltaic (PV) solar power farm bidirectional inverter as a battery charger, is presented. It is shown that a combination of PV solar farm and storage batteries can be advantageous in a distribution system having wind farm in close vicinity to the solar farm. Under such a condition, the PV solar farm inverter can regulate the grid voltage (if allowed by the code) by charging/ discharging the batteries as well as provide better asset utilization and return on investments. The PV solar farm inverter is operated as a three-phase fully controlled rectifier to charge the batteries which draws sinusoidal currents at unity power factor operation. MATLAB/SIMULINK based simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed indirect grid voltage regulation utilizing the PV solar farm and storage batteries.
Keywords :
battery chargers; distributed power generation; invertors; photovoltaic power systems; power grids; rectifying circuits; secondary cells; solar cells; voltage control; wind power plants; bidirectional inverter; distributed generation system; grid voltage regulation; photovoltaic solar power farm; storage battery; three phase fully controlled rectifier; wind power plant; Batteries; Distributed control; Inverters; Investments; Photovoltaic systems; Rectifiers; Solar energy; Solar power generation; Voltage control; Wind farms; Battery storage; converter/inverter; photovoltaic (PV) system; solar power; voltage regulation; wind power;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPEC), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4508-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4509-7
DOI :
10.1109/EPEC.2009.5420966
