This report investigates the adoption of non-traditional solutions in combination with traditional solutions to increase the solar PV hosting capacity of PV-rich Distribution Networks.
Report extract
This document corresponds to the “Deliverable 4: Non-Traditional Solutions” part of the project Advanced Planning of PV-Rich Distribution Networks with funding assistance by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) as part of ARENA’s Advancing Renewables Program and led by the University of Melbourne in collaboration with AusNet Services. It focuses on the investigation of “non-traditional solutions” in combination with “traditional solutions” aiming at increasing the solar PV hosting capacity (HC) of Distribution Networks considering the new Victorian Volt-Watt and Volt var settings which mandates that both power quality response modes are enabled.
This document first presents the non-traditional solutions investigated in this Task and details the methodologies adopted for the corresponding solutions. Chapter 3 presents the data and considerations used for the analyses and case studies performed in this Task. Chapters 4-7 present and discuss the results obtained from each case study. Finally, conclusions and next steps are presented in Chapter 8 and 9, respectively.