TY - GEN
T1 - Load modelling for medium voltage SWER distribution networks
AU - Hosseinzadeh, Nasser
AU - Mastakov, Sergei
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The supply of electricity to customers dispersed across wide geographical areas using the Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) distribution system has been adopted in many rural areas in Australia. This network system is the most economically practical method of supplying continuous power to scattered rural customers. With the increased demand for high power devices such as air conditioners and periodic events such as pumping, as well as the use of long and high impedance feeders, it becomes difficult to maintain good voltage regulation on these networks. Modelling of electrical networks is an important aspect of network analysis. However, current models for SWER networks do not reflect the conditions and voltage drops expected on the actual networks. The use of customer energy data and load diversity rules, in load allocation procedure, provides an opportunity to develop significantly more accurate models. The case studies of the Mistake Creek North and Stanage Bay SWER networks in Central Queensland show a significant improvement in the accuracy of the developed models reflecting the actual network performance.
AB - The supply of electricity to customers dispersed across wide geographical areas using the Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) distribution system has been adopted in many rural areas in Australia. This network system is the most economically practical method of supplying continuous power to scattered rural customers. With the increased demand for high power devices such as air conditioners and periodic events such as pumping, as well as the use of long and high impedance feeders, it becomes difficult to maintain good voltage regulation on these networks. Modelling of electrical networks is an important aspect of network analysis. However, current models for SWER networks do not reflect the conditions and voltage drops expected on the actual networks. The use of customer energy data and load diversity rules, in load allocation procedure, provides an opportunity to develop significantly more accurate models. The case studies of the Mistake Creek North and Stanage Bay SWER networks in Central Queensland show a significant improvement in the accuracy of the developed models reflecting the actual network performance.
KW - Load Modelling
KW - Power Distribution Systems
KW - Rural Electrification
KW - SWER
KW - Single Wire Earth Return
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67649647536
SN - 9781424441624
T3 - 2008 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2008
BT - 2008 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2008
T2 - 2008 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2008
Y2 - 14 December 2008 through 17 December 2008
ER -