Fair Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources with Volt-Var Control and PV Curtailment

03/09/2022
by   Daniel Gebbran, et al.
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This paper presents a novel distributed optimal power flow (DOPF) method for fair distributed energy resource (DER) coordination in the context of mandated rooftop PV inverter control modes. In practice, inverter reactive power control is increasingly required by grid connection codes, which often unfairly curtail PV generation of prosumers towards the end of low-voltage feeders. Similarly, optimization-based DER coordination methods that aim solely for technically-efficient DER coordination do not consider the distribution of PV curtailment across customers. To address these concerns, we develop a tractable multi-objective DOPF method for optimal DER coordination that (i) curtails PV generation fairly across prosumers, and (ii) incorporates a standard piecewise-linear volt-var control reactive power control function without using integer variables. Three equity principles representing different interpretations of fairness are implemented in our coordination method; namely, egalitarian, proportional and uniform dynamic PV curtailment redistribution. The performance of our approach is demonstrated on low-voltage distribution feeders of different sizes (5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 prosumers) using two network topologies: line topology without lateral spurs and tree topology with lateral spurs. Each network considers three levels of PV penetration, giving 30 test systems in total. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DOPF method for fair DER coordination: PV curtailment is equitably distributed among prosumers with a computational burden on par with conventional DOPF approaches. Moreover, different fairness methods result in different patterns of curtailment, which a regulator may choose between.

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