Modeling and simulation of distributed generation (DG) for distribution systems load flow analysis

Increased loads and customers demand from the distribution utility side by side with the deregulated environment have focused more light on distributed generation (DG) as an attractive option to defer transmission and distribution upgrading, and to support reliability and system performance. This paper discusses modeling of different types of DG and its integration in the distribution network using an efficient load flow technique which is based on the compensation-based method. More attention has been paid to DGs using renewable energy resources such as wind turbine generators, fuel cells, and photovoltaic. This paper also presents a comparison between three different techniques solve the load flow of distribution networks containing different types of DGs.