Temperature effect to distribution system load profiles and feeder losses

A systematic procedure is proposed to study the effect of temperature change to the power system load demand by using the typical load patterns of customer classes. The billing data of all service customers are retrieved to derive the daily load profile of the selected Taipower district. To verify the accuracy of the estimated load composition, the simulation results are compared to the actual load profile collected by the SCADA system. The sensitivity analysis of load demand with respect to the temperature change for each customer class is performed by statistic regression according to the actual customer power consumption and temperature data. The load contribution by each customer class is updated by the corresponding temperature sensitivity and integrated together to form the new load profile of a service district with temperature change. To investigate the temperature effect to the distribution system operation, one of the Taipower distribution feeders is selected for computer simulation. The power demand at each load bus of the distribution feeder is calculated by applying the temperature sensitivity and the three-phase load flow analysis is then executed to find the new feeder loading and power loss with the temperature change.