Managing New PV Plant Connection to Available Grids to Stay within Standard Limits with a Case Study

Abstract

PV plants are increasing all over the world and they are becoming a distinct part of electric grids. Due to abundance of solar irradiation and almost constant amount of it in certain geographical latitudes, selection of proper capacity of PV plants depends mostly on available places for the site. In this paper, important measures for safe connection of a PV plant in terms of voltage requirements are addressed and several guidelines are introduced for this purpose. In addition, simulation results are included to prove some of the mentioned suggestions. A general algorithm is finally proposed to show the directions for safe connection of PV plants.