2nd International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies - SEST 2019, Porto (Portugal). 09-11 September 2019
Summary:
Vertical load is the power flow between electrical transmission and distribution networks. In the past, large-scale generators connected to transmission systems supplied consumers connected to lower voltage levels across distribution grids. Thus, vertical loads tended to be downward-oriented. This paper presents a spatiotemporal distributed energy resources (DER) diffusion model to analyze vertical load uncertainty resulting from different DER diffusion process representations currently used in the industry and academia. Network planners and operators can use such model to understand the long-term evolution of load at the T/D boundary. The proposal is applied to the Portuguese power system, combining, as first of its kind, highly granulated population census with georeferenced transmission and distribution network datasets. This application analyzes the 20-year evolution of such vertical load flows at the transmission-distribution boundary under a strong uptake of DER embodied in lower voltage levels in Portugal.
Keywords: Diffusion of Innovations Theory, Distributed Energy Resources, Transmission system planning, Spatiotemporal modeling.
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST.2019.8849078
Published in SEST 2019, pp: 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-7281-1157-5
Publication date: 2019-09-09.
Citation:
F. Heymann, J.M. Silva, P. Vilaca, F.J. Soares, P. Dueñas, J. Melo, V. Miranda, Vertical load uncertainty at the T/D boundary under different spatial DER allocation techniques, 2nd International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies - SEST 2019, Porto (Portugal). 09-11 September 2019. In: SEST 2019: Conference proceedings, ISBN: 978-1-7281-1157-5
