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Presenter: Mehran Amigh
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Date: Fri, June 21, 2019
Time: 13:30:00 - 14:30:00
Place: EOW 430

ABSTRACT

Power utilities are expected to meet increasing power demands considering environmental concerns and financial restrictions. Thus, power loss minimization is an attractive solution. As operating current and power loss in distribution system is higher than in transmission systems, finding feasible methods to reduce power loss in distribution systems is important. Among the existing power loss reduction methods in distribution systems, distributed generation (DG) integration is the most effective. Generating power using renewable energy resources will also meet environmental concerns. Furthermore, the increasing cost of fossil fuel and technological development have made renewable energy source financially viable. This work considers power loss reduction in distribution systems by integrating behind-the-meter type 3 distributed generation (DG) sources. The IEEE 33 bus distribution system is considered as an example. Power loss is estimated by applying the forward/backward sweep (FBS) method, and power loss reduction is optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO). The Power factor, and DG location and size are used as optimization parameters to reduce power loss. The PSS SINCAL software is used to evaluate the proposed solution. Results are presented while show that for the same amount of DG penetration in a distribution system, behind-the-meter type 3 DG sources reduce the power loss. Thus, utilities not only benefit from saving investment costs but also higher efficiency in their distribution systems. As DG sources are typically renewable, environmental concerns are also mitigated.