| Title |
Application of Conservation Voltage Reduction using Automatic Voltage Regulator of Linear Voltage Control in Campus Microgrid with Power Consumption Reduction |
| Authors |
임일형(Lim, Il-Hyung) ; 이명환(Lee, Myung-Hwan) ; 신용학(Shin, Yong-Hark) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2017.66.7.1039 |
| Keywords |
Conservation voltage reduction ; CVR ; Campus microgrid ; Smart Grid |
| Abstract |
Campus microgrid is designed and built by considering not only power generation but also power consumption management as connected microgrid type because the main goal of the campus microgrid is to save power consumption costs. There are many functions to achieve the goal and they are mainly to use generation-based functions such as islanding operation for peak management and for emergency events. In power distribution operation, Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) is applied in order to reduce power consumption. The CVR is defined as a function for load consumption reduction by voltage reduction in order to reduce peak demands and energy consumption. However, application of CVR to microgrid is difficult because the microgrid cannot control a tap of transformer in a substation and the microgrid normally is not designed with phase modifying equipment like a step-voltage-regulator which can control voltage in power distribution system operation. In addition, an impact of the CVR is depended on load characteristics such as a normal load, a rated power, and synchronous motors. Therefore, this paper proposes an application of CVR using linear voltage control based AVR in campus microgrid with power consumption reduction considering characteristics of load and component in the microgrid. The proposed system can be applied to each buildings by a configuration of power distribution cables; and the application results and CVR factor are presented in this paper. |