PV plants for voltage regulation in distribution networks

Abstract

This paper deals with the development of a centralized nonlinear auto-adaptive controller able to optimize the network voltage profile by managing the reactive power supplied by PV inverters. The control design is based on a realtime optimization procedure involving the sensitivity theory in conjunction with the Lyapunov function and produces the control laws that must be sent to local controllers of PV-inverters. The derived controller is implemented and tested on a MV distribution network.