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Reactive Power Support Using Photovoltaic Systems

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Climate change is one of the world’s most pressing issues, and most climate scientists agree that the Earth temperature is on track to increase by more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels—thereby inducing flooding of low-lying countries and extreme weather conditions throughout the world, among other severe and irreversible effects—if countries do not reduce their fossil fuels consumption [1]. That is why in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (also known as the Paris Agreement), the world leaders have agreed to accelerate the “reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions” through increased adoption of renewable energies [2].

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Inductive loads are usually found in any type of wound coil, or induction motors, which are common load for industrial customers, whereas capacitive loads are typically capacitor banks.

  2. 2.

    On-grid PV system, based on its capacity and location where it is installed, can be divided into residential PV (1–10s of kWp, typically installed on residential rooftops); commercial/industrial PV (10s of kWp to approximately 1 MWp, typically installed on rooftop of commercial/industrial buildings); and utility-scale PV (\(\ge \)5 MWp, typically ground-mounted PV installed away from the load centres).

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    The full name of the standard is IEEE Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources with Associated Electric Power Systems Interfaces, but it will be referred to IEEE Standard 1547 in the text for brevity.

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    Singapore electricity market is operating on a half-hour basis [63].

  5. 5.

    The weather forecast data employed in this thesis have been mainly generated by Hadrien Verbois from Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), and by Wenjie Zhang from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore (NUS).

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