Decreasing Renewable Energy Operation Cost to Distribution Network Hosting Capacity Increment by Reconfiguration and Reactive Power Compensation

Due to the concerns caused by the uncontrolled consumption of fossil fuels, governments and organizations are moving towards the use of new technologies with low environmental pollution as the renewable resources such as wind sources. Therefore, it is expected that the capacity of the mentioned resources in the distribution network will increase a lot in the next few years. Therefore, to prevent accidents that can be expected from the lack of management of these elements in the distribution network, there is a need to manage the energy of the mentioned elements and also to reconfiguration the network structure to increase the capacity of the distribution network to use these resources. In addition to this, increasing the number of mentioned elements in the distribution network will increase the uncertainty parameters of the distribution network. Therefore, the operator of the distribution network should be able to perform certain management conditions for all the scenarios resulting from the uncertainty of various parameters, so that in this case the distribution network is able to operate with proper performance. The results show that the use of distributed generations reduces costs by 77%, and the use of compensation and reconfiguration reduces costs by 18%.