Impact of a high penetration of microgeneration and µGrids in the security of supply

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2008

Authors

Paulo Moisés A. Costa (Author) FEUP; Manuel A. Matos (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 6th Mediterranean Conference and Exhibition on Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, MEDPOWER 2008

Pages: 1-6

6th Mediterranean Conference and Exhibition on Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, MEDPOWER 2008

Salónica, Grécia, 2 - 5 de Novembro

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): The recent development of the concept of microgrid, associated to the emergent interest in microgeneration, raised a number of challenges regarding the evaluation of the technical, economical and regulatory impacts of a high penetration of this kind of solutions in the power systems. In this paper, the topic of security of supply is addressed, aiming at evaluating the influence of microgeneration and microgrids in the medium and long term availability of generation to serve the forecasted load. A Monte-Carlo based methodology is used, to compare the adequacy indices of a base case without microgeneration with the indices associated to various penetrations of different technologies of microgeneration (CHP, PV, wind, etc) and the existence of µGrids.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6