Grid-driven tool for renewables integration based on nodal capacity allocation

Over the last years, most countries in the world are facing a growing integration of renewable energy sources in their power networks due to the continuous effort on decreasing their carbon footprint. This increasing penetration of renewable energy sources led to the emergence and consequent grow of distributed generation units. From a network planning and growth perspective, the increase of producing centers has different challenges. Additionally, system operators must know and sometimes publish the grid capacity to receive new generation units. Taking this into account, this paper presents a tool that can be used to determine the capacity for reception of new energy sources in the different grid nodes. The tool uses genetic algorithms and power systems analysis software to perform this nodal capacity allocation and its validation is presented through the application of a case study.