TY - BOOK AU - Mostafa Magdy Yehia Esmaiel AU - Doaa Khalil Ibrahim , AU - Mostafa Ahmed Elshahed , TI - Enhancing pv hosting capacity using smart inverters and time of use tariffs / PY - 2021/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mostafa Magdy Yehia Esmaiel , KW - Centralized PV KW - Distributed PV KW - PV hosting capacity N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electrical Power and Machines; Issued also as CD N2 - The impacts of centralized and distributed PV on distribution network(DN) are extensively investigated in this thesis. Different weather conditions and different PV penetration levels are considered. Many aspects are examined such as voltage magnitude, voltage unbalance factor, performance of conventional voltage regulation devices, and energy losses. IEEE 123 node test feeder is modelledin this study and quasi-static time series daily simulationsare performed using OpenDSS software. The impact of the centralized PV significantly appears close to its connection point and its surrounding area, while the impact of the distributed PV acts along the DN. It is observed that the more the PV penetration increases, the more the voltage magnitude and regulator tap changes increase. Moreover, the cloudy day will cause more voltage fluctuations and accordingly increase the tap change operation. It is also found that the distributed PV will have voltage unbalance factor more than the centralized PV.The PV hosting capacity is defined as the maximum PV that can be integrated into the DN without causing any violations to current and voltage constraints. A methodology for estimating the PV hosting capacity is proposed in this thesis. It considers the variability nature of the PV power output during the day UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -