The study investigates the extent to which voltage management issues in Australian distribution networks can be expected to arise given credible projections of DER growth. It also analyses the corresponding trend in curtailment of residential rooftop solar generation that can be expected to emerge. The effectiveness of distribution-scale static synchronous compensators (dSTATCOM) at mitigating these issues is then studied in detail and the corresponding effectiveness of two different...
More DescriptionThe study investigates the extent to which voltage management issues in Australian distribution networks can be expected to arise given credible projections of DER growth. It also analyses the corresponding trend in curtailment of residential rooftop solar generation that can be expected to emerge. The effectiveness of distribution-scale static synchronous compensators (dSTATCOM) at mitigating these issues is then studied in detail and the corresponding effectiveness of two different conventional network augmentation strategies are also studied for comparison.