Nighttime application of PV solar farm as STATCOM to regulate grid voltage

Rajiv K. Varma; V. Khadkikar; Ravi Seethapathy

doi:10.1109/TEC.2009.2031814

Nighttime application of PV solar farm as STATCOM to regulate grid voltage

Rajiv K. Varma, V. Khadkikar, Ravi Seethapathy

Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

This letter presents a novel concept of utilizing photovoltaic (PV) solar farm (SF) as a flexible ac transmission systems controllerstatic synchronous compensator, to regulate the point of common coupling voltage during nighttime when the SF is not producing any active power. This concept, although general, is presented for the scenario of a distribution feeder, which has both PV solar and wind farms connected to it. The proposed control will enable increased connections of renewable energy sources in the grid. A MATLAB/Simulink-based simulation study is presented under variable wind power generation and fault condition to validate the proposed concept.

Original language	British English
Article number	5336286
Pages (from-to)	983-985
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2009.2031814
State	Published - Dec 2009

Keywords

Distributed generation
Flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS)
Solar energy
Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)
Voltage regulation
Wind energy

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Nighttime application of PV solar farm as STATCOM to regulate grid voltage

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