AB  - Hosting Capacity (HC) analysis is a recent methodology that is used by many Low Voltage Distribution Network (LVDN) operators to address the technical limits associated with Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration into the grid. In the literature, several techniques and methodologies have been proposed to perform the HC analysis. However, there is a gap between existing approaches in the literature and those which are utilised in the industry to assess HC. In this paper, the HC techniques used by the industry have been reviewed. The main industrial HC techniques are, namely, iterative HC, stochastic HC and streamlined HC. Unlike other papers, the methods have been presented in a more technical way to help other researchers and engineers reproduce the algorithms. Moreover, the three methods have been applied to the European low-voltage test feeder to compare their performance against accuracy, processing efficiency and complexity. It was found that the iterative method has the highest accuracy while the Streamlined approach possesses the lowest processing time.
AU  - Makhalfih, A
AU  - Hossain, MJ
AU  - MacAna, C
AU  - Pota, HR
DA  - 2023/01/01
DO  - 10.1109/ETFG55873.2023.10407889
EP  - 6
JO  - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG)
PB  - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
PY  - 2023/01/01
SP  - 1
TI  - Distributed Energy Resources Hosting Capacity Assessment - An Industry Perspective
VL  - 00
Y1  - 2023/01/01
Y2  - 2026/10/17
ER  -