Paper Info
Title
Closure to “Short-Term Reactive Power Planning to Minimize Cost of Energy Losses Considering PV Systems”
Abstract
The authors would like to sincerely thank M. Khalid for his thoughtful discussion on our paper <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> . He raises important and excellent points regarding various critical issues encountered with the efficacy of utilizing the reactive power support (RPS) of photovoltaic (PV) inverters. There have been ongoing research works and updates on studying and analyzing PV inverters from different viewpoints: operation stage, planning stage, and the emerging smart inverters’ functionalities and capabilities in the IEEE Standard 1547 <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[2]</xref> . The proposed planning model in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> is conducted at the “ <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">planning stage</italic> ”, and aims to incorporate the investment decisions of utilizing RPS options from the existing/new inverters of utility/customer-owned PV installations, as alternative solutions to installing utility-specialized RPS assets (e.g., cheap capacitor banks (CBs) and expensive reactive power compensators). The conventional RPS planning studies aim to find the optimal size and location of utility-specialized assets (e.g., CBs) to achieve considerable technical-benefits for improving network performance and transfer capability (e.g., improving voltage profile and power factor, reducing network losses, relieving MVA-capacity of upstream transformers, increasing power transfer capability, etc.) and thus, deferring network upgrades to supply extra demand. As reported in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> , Section II, the proposed planning model provides utility planners with considerable advantages to achieve the aforementioned technical benefits of RPS, compared to the conventional approach, such as having short-term, cost-efficient and effective RPS solutions that are flexible and adaptable with the increasing connections of PV installations. Please, find our response to the raised comments:
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TSG.2020.2970260
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Field
DocType
Volume
Capacitor,Power factor,Installation,AC power,Control engineering,Maximum power transfer theorem,Engineering,Investment decisions,Photovoltaic system,Reliability engineering,Network performance
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1949-3053
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sultan S. Alkaabi110.71
Hatem H. Zeineldin210922.18
Vinod Khadkikar313.07