PVUSA: The value of photovoltaics in the distribution system. The Kerman Grid-Support Project Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title PVUSA: The value of photovoltaics in the distribution system. The Kerman Grid-Support Project

Creator

  • Author: Wenger, H. J.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Hoff, T. E.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Pacific Energy Group, Walnut Creek, CA (United States)

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
  • Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  • Sponsor: California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, Sacramento, CA (United States)
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Davis, CA (United States)
    Place of Publication: United States

Date

  • Creation: 1995-05-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: As part of the Photovoltaics for Utility Scale Applications Applications (PVUSA) Project Pacific Gas Electric Company (PG&E) built the Kerman 500-kW photovoltaic power plant. Located near the end of a distribution feeder in a rural section of Fresno County, the plant was not built so much to demonstrate PV technology, but to evaluate its interaction with the local distribution grid and quantify available nontraditional grid-support benefits (those other than energy and capacity). As demand for new generation began to languish in the 1980s, and siting and permitting of power plants and transmission lines became more involved, utilities began considering smaller, distributed power sources. Potential benefits include shorter construction lead time, less capital outlay, and better utilization of existing assets. The results of a PG&E study in 1990/1991 of the benefits from a PV system to the distribution grid prompted the PVUSA Project to construct a plant at Kerman. Completed in 1993, the plant is believed to be the first one specifically built to evaluate the multiple benefits to the grid of a strategically sited plant. Each of nine discrete benefits were evaluated in detail by first establishing the technical impact, then translating the results into present economic value. Benefits span the entire system from distribution feeder to the generation fleet. This work breaks new ground in evaluation of distributed resources, and suggests that resource planning practices be expanded to account for these non-traditional benefits.
  • Physical Description: 181 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Power Range 100-1000 Kw
  • STI Subject Categories: 14 Solar Energy
  • Keyword: Performance
  • Keyword: Photovoltaic Power Supplies

Source

  • Other Information: PBD: May 1995

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE95014344
  • Report No.: DOE/AL/82993--20
  • Grant Number: FC04-92AL82993
  • DOI: 10.2172/93996
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 93996
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc793051

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI as DE95014344
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