Power Quality Issues in Grid Integrated Solar PV

Kapil Varshney*, Muskaan Ahuja**
*-** Department of Electrical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
Periodicity:July - September'2020
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.14.1.17633

Abstract

In last few years, photovoltaic (PV) system become quite popular in domestic level to due to generate electricity, technical feasibility and easy installation. Government is also promoting this by providing subsidies to install solar PV systems. In this study, grid integrated solar PV system is proposed and various powers quality issues in integration are studied. The proposed system comprises of a PV system with variable irradiance which gives variable voltage and current, the PWM type inverter is used to reduce harmonic and convert DC power into AC power for grid integration. These results show various power quality (PQ) issues, i.e., voltage sag swell and harmonic distortion during grid integration occurs on grid. The STATCOM based compensator is proposed to improve power quality to keep different problems within the IEEE standards. The proposed model is developed, simulated and analyzed in MATLAB /SIMULINK environment and the results are discussed.

Keywords

PQ Issues, PV System, Grid Integration, Mitigation of PQ issues.

How to Cite this Article?

Varshney, K., and Ahuja, M. (2020). Power Quality Issues in Grid Integrated Solar PV. i-manager's Journal on Electrical Engineering, 14(1), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.14.1.17633

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