Technical and economic impacts of Distributed Generation on the transmission networks

Author

Táutiva, Camilo ; Duran, Hernando ; Cadena, Ángela

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Technical and economic impacts of Distributed Generation on the Colombian extra-high and high voltage transmission network are analyzed in this paper. The transmission network (extra-high, high and medium voltage) is divided in geographical zones. DG capacity installation is modeled in some of those zones considering two different location criteria: nodal factors and declared investment options. Results show significant benefits of the introduction of DG in transmission power losses and congestion reduction as well as in voltage profile improvement.

Keywords

distributed power generation; installation; investment; power distribution economics; power generation economics; transmission networks; Colombian extra-high transmission network; DG capacity installation; congestion reduction; distributed generation; economic impacts; geographical zones; high voltage transmission network; investment; technical impacts; transmission networks; transmission power losses; voltage profile; Economics; Electricity; Investments; Medium voltage; Power transmission lines; Propagation losses; Distributed generation; nodal factors; technical and economic impacts; transmission systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2012 IEEE PES

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2158-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT.2012.6175754

Filename

6175754