“Collaboration is key to Distributed Energy Resources (DER)”
Distribution networks will play a key role in supporting New Zealand’s transition to a low emissions economy and reaching the Government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050. Enabling ubiquitous Distributed Energy Resources (DER) will be a key part in the suite of measures needed to achieve this aspiration.
Evaluation and analysis of real-time network information at the ICP level is integral to growing an informed picture of the state of the network and this is key to engineering and implementation of solutions.
With increasing penetration of technologies, visibility of location, size, and performance of DER installed on LV networks will be fundamental to the continued provision of line function services.
PowerNet, Alpine Energy and Network Tasman, are working collaboratively to enable DER. Our Networks are widely different in terms of end-user types, climate, and topology; however, our need to better understand our LV network performance provided a common ground.
Together we have developed a suite of tools to help us tackle the problems and opportunities that ubiquitous DER presents and to prepare ourselves for this future.
Digitisation of LV network – by using GPS proximity and ICP level Quality of Supply (QOS) data we were able to confirm and correct existing data sets.
Evaluation of LV network capacity – map and analyse available capacity and show DER carrying capacity.
Evaluation of controllable load - quantify the merit of maintaining our ripple plant and the value of controllable load.
Understanding existing DER performance – checking if DER is performing as expected, alerts to QOS violations due to DER, and alerts to non-consented DER (generation).
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