Perspective chapter: Power Quality and Hosting Capacity

Abstract

With the increasing prevalence of distributed generation (DG) and power electronic-based technologies, consumers will have more alternatives for obtaining energy from different public or private sources. The issues will be with power quality (PQ), pricing, and reliability. Shortly, maintaining acceptable power quality levels above certain acceptable thresholds will be challenging because of the special difficulties brought on by nonlinear loads and novel types of load equipment. The significance of current and voltage quality issues increases even further in such an environment of competition. The chapter is dedicated to presenting an overview of PQ definitions, disturbances, causes, and standards. Harmonic description, sources, effects, and harmonic filtering techniques are also presented. Then, renewable-based DGs and HC studies—types, challenges, and solutions, are demonstrated. Further, a literature overview of the existing solutions under consideration (harmonic management) is presented and discussed.