TY - GEN
T1 - Area EPS and Distributed Resources protection best practices
AU - El-Fouly, T. H.M.
AU - Turcotte, D.
AU - Williston, D.
AU - Sinclair, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Department of Energy grant DE-FC-03–87ER60615. G.L.H. was supported by a Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award GM007185.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Driven by technical and environmental reasons, it is expected that future increases in electrical demand will be met through the integration of high penetration levels of Distributed Resources (DR) (or distributed generation) into distribution networks. Such integration will introduce new benefits to utilities and their customers; however, it will also bring new challenges to distribution systems planning and operation such as the perturbation of the utility protection system. A working group, including Canadian and US members representing utilities, manufacturers and private consultants, was established to develop protection scheme options for DR interconnection to utility grids. This paper presents the identified best practice protection schemes for both three wire and four wire distribution systems with DRs. One traditional scheme, currently adopted by utilities, and four new proposed schemes are presented.
AB - Driven by technical and environmental reasons, it is expected that future increases in electrical demand will be met through the integration of high penetration levels of Distributed Resources (DR) (or distributed generation) into distribution networks. Such integration will introduce new benefits to utilities and their customers; however, it will also bring new challenges to distribution systems planning and operation such as the perturbation of the utility protection system. A working group, including Canadian and US members representing utilities, manufacturers and private consultants, was established to develop protection scheme options for DR interconnection to utility grids. This paper presents the identified best practice protection schemes for both three wire and four wire distribution systems with DRs. One traditional scheme, currently adopted by utilities, and four new proposed schemes are presented.
KW - Anti-islanding
KW - Distributed Resources
KW - Distribution Systems
KW - Protection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893188595&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672930
DO - 10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672930
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893188595
SN - 9781479913039
T3 - IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
BT - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES 2013
Y2 - 21 July 2013 through 25 July 2013
ER -