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Hedayat Saboori and Hamdi Abdi 2
demanded power and energy. Also, the factors governing Fig. I. How load leveling reduces losses [7]
added value to the system and side of transformer ESS Ideal load leveling can be achieved through fmding average
installation effect are analyzed. In addition, the required load current. In other words, the best leveled load is a straight
characteristic of the ESS are discussed in detail. The line equal to average load. Load current deviation from the
remainder of paper is as follow: after this brief introduction, average load should be adjusted by ESS. Load currents below
section II states the theoretical basis behind the proposed average will be increased to reach average value by charging
method for loss reduction. Section III describes the studied ESS and on the other hand, load currents above average will
system and section IV reports the simulation results and be compensated through discharging stored energy. Thus, the
discussions. At last, section V declares the conclusion remarks average load current and corresponding ESS current will be
of the work. equal to:
T
IILoad(,)
II. THEORET ICAL BAS IS lAve .!...I�=,-I
Load =
___
(3)
T
Since distribution technical losses are a function of the
square of the load current, shifting any part of load from peak
to off-peak period results in a net reduction of losses (Fig.l)
IESS(I) =ILoad(l) - It;; =ILoad(I) T
(4)
[7] . A simple single diagram of the studies network is shown
in Fig. 2. As diagram shows, the network is composed of a where ILoad ,I t:oad and IESS(t) are load current, average load
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primary medium voltage feeder connected to a MY/LV current, and ESS current, respectively. As shown in Fig. 2 we
transformer; the transformer supply downstream loads through can install ESS both side of the transformer i.e. MY and LV.
secondary feeders in turn. In general, the total loss for a time In case of installing ESS in the MY side of transformer,
period with and without load shifting can be formulated as: leveled load current will pass from the line only. Thus, passed
T
Loss =IR(t).J(t)2 (1) load current through transformer will be unchanged and we
have line loss reduction only (Fig. 3.A). But, if we install ESS
T in the transformer LV side, leveled load current besides line
LossLeveled =I R(,).(1(I) + 1 ESS(1»2 (2)
I�I will be passed through transformer. In this case, loss reduction
where will take placed in both line and transformer (Fig. 3.B).
Loss Network losses Mathematical formulation for network losses is expressed for
LOSSLel'eied Network losses with leveled load current both cases in the following. By expanding (1,2) and
R (I)& 1(1) Resistance and current at time t substituting (3,4):
Power or
Cur ent Loss �s:-Side =[�RLine(1).(1Locd(l) + ESS(I
1 »2 ]
+ [�RTftll1S(t).(1Load(ty]
Aver3ge+ r �r__
Line
______ ________
=[�RLine(t).(1�)2 ] + [�RTiWlS(I).(1Load(l/ ] (5)
Loss f�s_
slde =[�RLme(1).(1Load(I) + ESS(1»2
1 ]
Time
+[�RTIWlS(I).(1Locd(t) + ESS(1»2
1 ]
hss(,) Energy storage system current at time t (6)
T
=I [(RLine(I) + RTiWlS(t) ).(1Load(t) + ESS(t»2
1=1
1 ]
T
=I [(RLine(I) + RTiWlS(t) ).(1 t;; )2 ]
I�I
where L ESS
ass MV -Side and L
ESS
ass LV -Side are network I osses .m case
L03d /1 '$", =
Reduction�
L ( -1
I II
3
III. CASE DESCR IPT ION declined from 490.99 to 475.97 with a LV-side ESS and ideal
As mentioned earlier, single line diagram and single phase load leveling. Yearly saved energy and percent of loss
equivalent circuits of the studied case are shown in Fig. 2 and reduction are reported in Table II and Table III, respectively.
Fig. 3. The primary distribution feeder is a medium voltage As Table II shows, relocating ESS from MV to LV side can
20KV line which initiates from the upstream subtransmission compensate 404 MWh lost energy in the transformer. From
substation. It consists of three ACSR conductor of type Fox Table III, it can be concluded that ideal loss reduction percent
with 0.78 ohm per kilometer resistance and length 20 for every equipment in the network is equal to 3.0595. It
kilometers. Also, distribution transformer is a MViLV should be noted that with increasing line length loss reduction
transformer with voltage ratio 20KV /004 KV. It has 1600 KV
A percent is constant but its net value increase in accordance
nominal apparent power, Dyn5 connection and 9.75 ohm per with line length.
phase equivalent resistance. For simplicity, we don't consider
transformer no-load loss because of its negligible value. Also,
we assume constant resistance for both line and transformer.
Applied load data is a hour by hour, yearly data based on [\6] 2000
which its peak value scaled to transformer rating (1600 KVA).
Hourly load variations during the year and daily demanded
energy are depicted in FigA and Fig. 5, respectively. As � 1500
mentioned earlier, two different scenarios including MY-side �'"
and LV-side Installed ESS are considered and obtained results
"d
analyzed. � 1000
�
MV/LV
Secondary
500
� ______ __
Primary
Feeder____ __��
�� �� �
OynS Feeders
400
25
Subtransmission r-t-----+
Substation Day of Year
o 0 Hour of Day
� ,---�---,----,--.--�--�
'"
e.o 26
A. MV-Side ESS �
." 24
]
� 22
�
�
.� 20
�
I-I---llli2:flg-+-��J2Q-+---��u rrent
18
Day ofYeaT
Table I I Yeany saved energy ( MWh) Final finding are ones relate to ESS and its characteristics.
&
Line Transformer
Line
Required Ampere-hour (Ab) to ideally leveling the load is
Transformer
given in Table V where we need a 110.4070 or 5520.4 Ab
MV-Side ESS 10.6 0 10.6 storage system in MV or LV side. This difference between
MV and LV side ESS characteristics simply can be explained
LV-Side sESS 10.6 4.4 15.02
through transformer ratio. By multiplying each MV-side value
such as MV-side Ab at transformer ratio (20/0.4=50) LV-side
Table Ill.Yearly percent of loss reduction equivalent will be obtained. With the same manner other
Line & required ESS characteristics can be calculated from one side to
Line Transformer
Transformer
another. Also, Fig. 7 shows the average ESS state
With Respect
0.1235 0 0.1235 (charge/discharge) during the day hours where ESS current is
MV-Side to Load
ESS With Respect
proportional to load variation. As we expect and respecting
3.0595 0 3.0595 load variations in Fig. 1, at load hours below average load
to Loss
With Respect current, ESS will be in charge state and in contrary at load
0.1235 0.05 0.1749
LV-Side to Load hours above average load current, ESS will be in discharge
ESS With Respect
3.0595 3.0595 3.0595 state. Finally, Tables VI to VIII show the required ESS
to Loss
current, power, and speed, respectively.
Sorted daily net saved energy for line, transformer, and both
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of them is depicted in Fig. 6. Also, minimum, average, and
maximum daily percent of loss reduction with respect to daily
loss are equal to 1.6489, 2.9005, and 3.8348 percent, 10
respectively. $
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Besides loss reduction, load leveling can have a significant �::l 5
impact on releasing network capacity. Although this impact U
Charge Area
was out of paper focus but results are given in Table IV and CIl
CIl
Fig. 8. As we know, leveling the load can release network �
d) 0
capacity at least 195.622 and at most 384.724 KVA out of its 1l
CIl
Discharge
nominal 1600 KVA which means a reduction between 12.226 :>
Area
and 24.04 percent daily. ::iii -5
_10 ��-L������-L-L��-L��
9U --------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718192021222324
Hour of Day
80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- . Fig.7.ESS charge and discharge current state ( MV -side)
�
.Q
70 -.-.-.-.-.-.----------------------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------------------ -.-.-.-.-..
Table V ESS required Ah for both sides
� Line & Transformer
>. 60 -.-.-.-.-.-.------------------------.-.-.-.-.--------- Min Average Max
OIJ
....(1) ,
• I Net(KVA) 110.4070 75.9169 38.3948
50 -------------------------------------------- -----------:---------,.#---------.
�
s:::l
"D 40 ------------------------------------
Lme,.."
.. '
-----------,*'--------------------------.
I Percent 5520.4 3795.8 1919.7
""� .
�
..... Table VI ESS requIred current fIur both Sl'des (A)
�'
('1 ,__________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___________.
� 30
_______________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _______
Charge Discharge
�-��-
b ...... ,. Transformer -
--
. -;,..-;,;..' ------------------------�-: �-;: :-.-; ;-.-�.iT ..
MiD Avera�e Max MiD Avera�e Max
.... II.-.,-·- - - - - - _ ..
"C;; MV-Side
Cl ..... . �
0 3.1632 15.8261 0 3.1632 11.1
_-��---------:.. ..... .... ..... II..JII--I!�--� �----------------------------------------.
• •••••
ESS
10 __ .
LV-Side
......
..
,.111.- 111"··-
0 158.16 791.305 0 158.16 555.3
�____�__�
OL- __-L____�__�_____L____�__
ESS
o 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
D�y of Y e�Sorted .
Table V I I ESS requIred ower fIor both Sl'des (KW)
Fig.6.Sorted daily net saved energy Char�e Dischar�e
Table IV. Network capacIty re ease Table V I I I ESS required charge/discharge speed for both sides
Min Average Max Char�e A) Dischar�e A)
Min Avera�e Max Min Avera�e Max
Net(KVA) 195.622 284.837 384.724
MV-Side
0 0.312 7.332 0 0.312 5.237
Percent 12.226 17.802 24.04 ESS
LV-Side
0 15.610 366.605 0 15.610 261.86
ESS
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