Renewable Energy Integration in Conventional Grid: Potential, Challenges, and Aspects

Abstract

Integration of renewable energy sources to the conventional grid and the power flow management among various components of the hybrid power system offers many challenges. In this paper a brief summary of different renewable sources, their potential, advantages, and problems rose due to integration with existing grid are presented and renewable energy technologies are discussed. Future power demand cannot be met out by the fossil fuel. Therefore, the replacement of fossil fuels may be done by non-conventional and renewable energy sources. These sources are pollution free and exist in sufficient amount, are the best alternative but are associated with certain integration problems. This paper presents comparative study of pre fault and post fault parameters with and without renewable integration to grid Simulink model of grid combined with renewable energy source is designed in MATLAB. The results depict improvement in quality and status of the existing power system parameters.