Optimal Location and Sizing of Renewable Distributed Generators for Improving Robust Voltage Stability Against Uncontrollable Reactive Compensation

Abstract

The penetration level of renewable energy sources is increasing worldwide with incentives and subsidies for declining greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, determining the optimal location and size of renewable distributed generators (RDGs) remains a challenging task, owing to the uncontrollable reactance that dominates power distribution networks in voltage control and its sensitivity to weather conditions. Hence, without considering the reactive compensation of generators, RDG integration incurs undesired total power losses and puts the system at risk for voltage instability and collapse. This research proposes Load Disabling Nodal Analysis for Robust Voltage Stability (LDNA-RVS), a method that determines the optimal location and size of RDGs and aims to improve robust voltage stability by considering reactive compensation while enhancing the loss reduction efficiency (LRE) of the RDG integration. The proposed LDNA-RVS method has been successfully applied to the IEEE 33-bus and IEEE 69-bus test distribution systems, demonstrating its suitability for small-scale systems with a limited number of RDGs. Finally, LDNA-RVS outperforms other methods in six out of eight categories for robust voltage stability and achieves the top rank in all eight categories for LRE. These findings prove the effectiveness of LDNA-RVS in terms of robust voltage stability and LRE against the uncontrollable reactive compensation.

Keywords

• Reactive compensation
• voltage stability
• distributed renewable generators
• power loss reduction