TY - JOUR
T1 - Mitigating unbalance using distributed network reconfiguration techniques in distributed power generation grids with services for electric vehicles
T2 - a review
AU - Islam, Md Rabiul
AU - Lu, Haiyan
AU - Hossain, M. J.
AU - Li, Li
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - With rapid movement to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gases, there is an increasing trend to use more electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources (RES). With more EVs integration into electricity grid, this raises many challenges for the distribution service operators (DSOs) to integrate such RES-based, distributed generation (DG) and EV-like distributed loads into distribution grids. Effective management of distribution network imbalance is one of the challenges. The distribution network reconfiguration (DNR) techniques are promising to address the issue of imbalance along with other techniques such as the optimal distributed generation placement and allocation (OPDGA) method. This paper presents a systematic and thorough review of DNR techniques for mitigating unbalance of distribution networks, based on papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the last three decades. It puts more focus on how the DNR techniques have been used to manage network imbalance due to distributed loads and DG units. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to review the research works in the field using DNR techniques to mitigate unbalanced distribution networks. Therefore, this paper will serve as a prime source of the guidance for mitigating network imbalance using the DNR techniques to the new researchers in this field.
AB - With rapid movement to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gases, there is an increasing trend to use more electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources (RES). With more EVs integration into electricity grid, this raises many challenges for the distribution service operators (DSOs) to integrate such RES-based, distributed generation (DG) and EV-like distributed loads into distribution grids. Effective management of distribution network imbalance is one of the challenges. The distribution network reconfiguration (DNR) techniques are promising to address the issue of imbalance along with other techniques such as the optimal distributed generation placement and allocation (OPDGA) method. This paper presents a systematic and thorough review of DNR techniques for mitigating unbalance of distribution networks, based on papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the last three decades. It puts more focus on how the DNR techniques have been used to manage network imbalance due to distributed loads and DG units. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to review the research works in the field using DNR techniques to mitigate unbalanced distribution networks. Therefore, this paper will serve as a prime source of the guidance for mitigating network imbalance using the DNR techniques to the new researchers in this field.
KW - Distribution network reconfiguration
KW - Phase swapping
KW - Unbalance mitigation
KW - Electric vehicles (EVs)
KW - Distributed generation (DG)
KW - Optimization method
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071396595&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117932
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117932
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85071396595
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 239
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
M1 - 117932
ER -