Investigating Optimum Impacts of High Concentration of Renewable Energy Sources in Conventional Power Distribution System

Energy needs have climbed drastically over the last two centuries because of the transportation and industry sectors and the massive migration towards urban areas. Green energy solutions are the answer to meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming and reducing CO
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emissions. This further boosts the public-private participation of renewable energy sources (RES) in national and international markets. With all these benefits, the unplanned and arbitrary placement of these static generation sources into conventional power distribution systems has several critical impacts on the system’s operation, performance, control, reliability, and sustainability. This paper presents a detailed investigation of the effects of high concentrations of RES on the conventional power distribution system. Stochastic iterative techniques are used to analyze the dynamic response of traditional conventional power distribution systems under normal and transient conditions, and harmonic analysis is used to evaluate the impacts of a high concentration of RES.