Anna Brockway

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2020-192

December 1, 2020

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-192.pdf

The deployment of solar photovoltaic arrays on electric distribution grids carries ramifications for grid reliability, power quality, and operations. Safely accommodating solar PV can aid renewable energy deployment goals and potentially provide grid benefits. Here, we assess the technical limits to PV deployment on distribution feeders by comparing the characteristics of two real-world deployment models: residential rooftop solar and community solar. We assess the potential to maximize the deployment of these two models in the context of allowable voltages on a distribution system. We find that enabling community solar deployment, either in addition to or instead of rooftop solar, can substantially increase the amount of solar a distribution feeder can accommodate.

Advisors: Kameshwar Poolla

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Brockway:EECS-2020-192,
    Author= {Brockway, Anna},
    Title= {Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Distribution Feeders: Comparing deployment models and their limits},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2020},
    Month= {Dec},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-192.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2020-192},
    Abstract= {The deployment of solar photovoltaic arrays on electric distribution grids carries ramifications for grid reliability, power quality, and operations. Safely accommodating solar PV can aid renewable energy deployment goals and potentially provide grid benefits. Here, we assess the technical limits to PV deployment on distribution feeders by comparing the characteristics of two real-world deployment models: residential rooftop solar and community solar. We assess the potential to maximize the deployment of these two models in the context of allowable voltages on a distribution system. We find that enabling community solar deployment, either in addition to or instead of rooftop solar, can substantially increase the amount of solar a distribution feeder can accommodate.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%T Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Distribution Feeders: Comparing deployment models and their limits
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2020
%8 December 1
%@ UCB/EECS-2020-192
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-192.html
%F Brockway:EECS-2020-192