Overvoltages due to Wind Power - Hosting Capacity, Deterministic and Statistical Approaches

By Math Bollen

This paper introduces methods to quantify the impact of wind power and other types of distributed generation on the overvoltage risk. The so-called hosting capacity approach, introduced in the very first issue of this magazine, is used as the basic approach. Both a deterministic and a statistical approach are introduced. The deterministic approach is suitable for generation with a constant production most of the time. However, it is shown that a deterministic approach could easily result in an unnecessary barrier against the introduction of wind power. For any method used to determine the hosting capacity, a serious discussion is needed about overvoltage indices and objectives.