Using smart devices to provide distributed reactive power support

Saurav Mohapatra, Christopher J. Recio, Thomas J. Overbye

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Abstract

Smart devices are becoming more common. Many of them already possess the hardware and software capabilities to implement the reactive power injection control as discussed in this paper. In the near future, such devices would be dispersed over a large portion of the electric distribution network, thus making distributed reactive voltage support feasible. This paper presents network-level benefits of such a scheme using a PowerWorld simulation. Applications are discussed, a proposed control framework is simulated in Simulink for a single smart device and future work is outlined.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNAPS 2011 - 43rd North American Power Symposium
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event43rd North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2011 - Boston, MA, United States
Duration: Aug 4 2001Aug 6 2011

Publication series

NameNAPS 2011 - 43rd North American Power Symposium

Other

Other43rd North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston, MA
Period8/4/018/6/11

Keywords

  • Smart devices
  • distributed control
  • reactive power resources
  • voltage control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Fuel Technology

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