Date & Time: 15 April 2021 at 12:30 pm GMT
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: The digitalisation of the energy sector plays an important part in the growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), which is providing much-needed energy access but is also cause for concern around the stability and resilience of the electricity network.
Therefore, following on from a previous webinar highlighting the consequences of increased penetration of renewable generation, part two of this presentation looks deeper into the issues of resolving intermittency of generation and the subsequent impact of reverse current flows.
To resolve the problem of intermittency requires more distributed energy resources, including storage. This then poses the problem of how to facilitate more connections and then to manage the congestion on the network, along with the subsequent voltage increases resulting from reverse power flows.
How this is co-ordinated as well as potential power quality issues will also be discussed with the view of using active network management and adaptive protection techniques.
