Experimental and simulation study of the impact of increased photovoltaic integration with the grid Shafiullah,GM, Oo,AMT, Ali,ABMS, Wolfs,P and Stojcevski,A 2014, Experimental and simulation study of the impact of increased photovoltaic integration with the grid, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1063/1.4885105. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Experimental and simulation study of the impact of increased photovoltaic integration with the grid Author(s) Shafiullah,GM Oo,AMT orcid.org/0000-0002-6914-2272 Ali,ABMS Wolfs,P Stojcevski,A Journal name Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Volume number 6 Issue number 3 Start page 1 End page 20 Total pages 20 Publisher American Institute of Physics Place of publication College Park, Md. Publication date 2014-06-26 ISSN 1941-7012 Keyword(s) Science & Technology Technology Energy & Fuels RENEWABLE-ENERGY SYSTEMS Summary The abundance, availability, and climate-friendly characteristics of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy encourage nations around the globe to adopt it to assist in overcoming global warming as well as build a sustainable society for the future. The intermittent nature of solar energy generation and the associated power electronic inverters with connected consumer loads creates a number of potential challenges in integrating large-scale PV into the grid that affects power quality of the distribution networks. This paper investigates the impacts of varying PV integration into the grid through experimental and simulation studies. Initially, several experiments were conducted with varying PV penetration and load conditions using the Renewable Energy Integration Facility at CSIRO, Newcastle, Australia. Later, a simulation model was developed that mimics the experimental facility used at CSIRO to investigate the adverse impacts on integrating large-scale PV into the grid using the power system simulation software PSS Sincal. Experimental and simulation analyses clearly indicate that integration of PV into the grid causes power quality issues such as voltage instability, harmonic injection, and low power factor into the networks and the level of these impacts increases with the increase of PV penetration. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. Language eng DOI 10.1063/1.4885105 Field of Research 090608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl Solar Cells) Socio Economic Objective 850504 Solar-Photovoltaic Energy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2014, American Institute of Physics Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30069789 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Engineering Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 17 Feb 2015, 17:04:07 EST Tue, 17 Feb 2015, 17:05:32 EST Wed, 18 Feb 2015, 04:00:29 EST Wed, 18 Feb 2015, 05:07:20 EST Thu, 26 Feb 2015, 11:46:32 EST Thu, 26 Feb 2015, 11:53:37 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 593 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 17 Feb 2015, 17:05:32 EST