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Keeping the voltages within the limits
Hitachi Energy power

distribution for a greener,
smarter and stronger grid
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Besides keeping the nodal voltages within

the required limits, the coordinated control also
guarantees that the power flows never exceed
given limits, hence protecting the grid
infrastructure.
The project The challenge

Hitachi Energy (PGGA), EKS (Elektrizitätswerk des Kantons The main motivation behind this work has been to enable the
Schaffhausen AG) and ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für integration of a large amount of renewable energy sources
Angewandte Wissenschaften) ran a pilot project in 2016-2017 without expensive grid extensions, to fulfill the given power
on the topic of renewable integration and Volt-VAr management. quality standards and to protect the infrastructure from possible
overloading; all this ideally in a minimum intrusive way with
The involved partners developed, simulated, implemented and regard to the end-customers and at minimum cost. In addition,
tested a pilot installation in Dettighofen (DE). This comprises a the installation shall be as easy as possible, ideally without any
low-voltage line-voltage regulator (LV-LVR) equipped with new prior grid model analysis.
functionalities for coordinated reactive power control (RPC) and
active power control (APC) of PV inverters.
The solution
Besides the direct and indirect voltage control functionality, it The developed solution is based on an Hitachi Energy LV-LVR
also includes an active power limitation as a backup function in (Line Voltage Regulator), extended with an additional control
order to protect the involved infrastructure from temporary logic running on cost-effective remote terminal units (Hitachi
overloading. Energy RTU540 and RTU520) and using an Hitachi Energy
TropOS wireless communication to two Hitachi Energy TRIO PV
inverters in order to coordinate the power production according
to the actual conditions in the grid.
solar station TRIO-8.5-TL TRIO-8.5-TL solar station
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RTU520 RTU540
TropOS 7320 TropOS 7320
PLC functions
TropOS 1410 LV LV
RTU540
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PLC functions
Solution configuration
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Different control strategies such as control with only the LV LVR, By adding Active Power Curtailment and Power Factor control,
Active Power Curtailment, and Reactive Power Control have the voltage could be kept within limits in the grid. With the
been engineered and tested, independently or in combination, installed solution, based on the tested cases and additional
in three separate campaigns in summer and autumn. simulations, it would be possible to increase the installed PV
peak power by about 25% without any additional grid
reinforcement. New PV roof-top installations or extension of
Results and benefits existing ones could be implemented easily and in a short time.
From the voltage measurements collected during the testing,
with and without voltage control, it is clearly visible that the Besides keeping the nodal voltages within the required limits,
implemented voltage control substantially improves the power the coordinated control also guarantees that the power flows
quality in the grid. never exceed given limits, hence protecting the grid
infrastructure (in this case the LV-LVR transformer).
The local LVR control results in the desired decrease of
voltage in the “downstream” grid branches independent of the
end-customers behavior and is fully under control of the grid
operator.
The measurements show, on the other hand, that in the part Customer feedback
of the grid being studied, it is not possible to integrate more
PVs without any additional voltage control, since even with “With the solution from Hitachi Energy, EKS could
the LV LVR the power utility’s internal voltage limitations were supervise and manage critical grid branches with a high
exceeded and the voltage value can be expected to rise even density of renewables with minimum efforts. With the
higher. development of the renewables energy installations the
Hitachi Energy solution may contribute to an economical
way for stabilizing the grid without having to invest in
extensive grid extensions.”
Hitachi Energy
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REFERENCE CASE

Keeping the voltages within the limits

Hitachi Energy power

Besides keeping the nodal voltages within

The project The challenge

solar station TRIO-8.5-TL TRIO-8.5-TL solar station

Network Control System

© 2023 Hitachi Energy. All rights reserved.

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