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Distributed solar-PV generation has gained significant penetration levels in electricity networks due to economic incentives provided to encourage renewable power generation and cost competitiveness over other generation options. With this growth in solar-PV generation, power utilities have encountered various planning and operational issues. In particular, voltage control and stability are two major issues faced by power utilities. These issues have arisen due to bidirectional power flows in distribution feeders and replacement of conventional synchronous generation with increased solar-PV generation. This chapter investigates voltage control and stability issues due to the high penetration of solar-PV generation in electricity network with various illustrative examples and operational scenarios. Furthermore, this chapter proposes various strategies to improve the distribution feeder voltage regulation and voltage stability with high penetration of solar-PV generation.
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Meegahapola, L., Littler, T. (2017). Distributed Solar-PV Generation: Impact on Voltage Control and Stability. In: Bansal, R. (eds) Handbook of Distributed Generation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51343-0_10
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