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This paper presents an integrated approach for assessing the impact that distributed energy resources (DERs), mostly intermittent in nature, might have on the reliability performance of distribution networks. A test distribution system based on a typical MV/LV urban distribution network in the UK is fully modelled and controlled to investigate the potential benefits that local renewables and energy storage can offer to the quality of power supply to customers. In this analysis, the conventional Monte Carlo method is further developed to include the time-variation of electricity demand profiles and failure rates of network components. Additionally, a theoretical interruption model is employed to assess more accurately the moment in time when interruptions to electricity customers are likely to occur. Accordingly, the impact of the spatio-temporal variation of DERs, with photovoltaic (PV) systems as key enablers, is quantified in terms of the effect of network outages. A range of smart grid functionalities is analysed and their benefits are assessed through standard reliability indices, with special attention to energy not supplied to customers, as well as frequency and duration of supply interruptions.

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The inclusion and arrangement of protection devices within the LV distribution network often neglected. By exemption of protection devices during network modelling, may result in overestimation of reliability performances. Detail network representation of UK LV residential model is used to assess network reliability performance. The analytical and improved Monte-Carlo Simulation (MCS) approaches are used to estimate system-related reliability indices.

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The growing number of energy consuming devices, together with the increasing demand for energy, has led to an energy crisis in the world today. As electricity is an important factor for the development in the economic growth. At this time, the growing population will bring disaster situations relating to electrical energy and pollution; it will affect both the economy and the citizens and make a barrier in the path to complete with developed countries. In order to overcome the epileptic situation of electrical energy and make our environment clean and green. First, we need to give opportunities for renewable energy to address electricity generation. Second, there is no other way to reduce complexity and eliminate energy problem without using solar energy. The solar energy which is renewable energy, environmental friendly and free of cost but still we face difficulty by complete harnessing of solar energy because of variation of irradiation and temperature to get constant point at the output we will use PI controller.Moreover, there is different classification of inverter we used "PWM inverter" that can take steady DC voltage PWM inverter can take in a steady dc voltage. So as to feed solar voltage to the boost converter to step-up solar voltage we used PI controller to control boost converter and get constant voltage at the output the we feed this boost DC voltage to the 3phase PWM inverter to converter into three phase AC voltage. Finally, the inverter should direct the extent and the recurrence of AC output voltages, and the diode rectifiers are required to settle the line-to-line voltage.

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Last decade has witnessed the birth and dissemination of microgeneration (MG) in most EU countries. MG growth and diffusion in LV networks are expected to continue in the next decade. At the same time, the interest on energy storage systems (ESS) applications to power systems has been intensifying in the last years, following some major technological achievements that improved ESS abilities and decreased their price. This article analyzes the impacts of MG and ESS dissemination in LV networks' losses. The central goal is to estimate the global impact on the Portuguese LV distribution system. For that purpose, a set of empirical studies was carried out over a set of representative networks, in which different MG and ESS scenarios were considered. The extrapolation of the results to the global LV points out to a loss reduction potential of more than 15%.

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In the beginning of the Iberian Electricity Market (MIBEL), in 2006, the Portuguese regulator created a new tariff scheme, aiming at responding to the new market competition environment. At the same time, the regulator intended to improve consumers' awareness and incentivize renewables generation. After one decade, this policy may be considered successful, as it led to a good level of transparency (all tariff costs are clear and public) and renewables production had increased considerably. However, this strategy has brought other less positive aspects. One of them is the attractiveness of the tariff system in terms of energy savings. In fact, the test cases present in this article demonstrate that the current tariff scheme does not stimulate energy efficiency. Other complementary studies are performed to illustrate the impact of the tariff structure design on the potential energy savings.

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