Impact of PV Penetration on Short Circuit Current of Radial Distributed Feeder and Existing Power System Protection of NUST

Integration of distributed generation into existing network can solve the problem of increasing energy demand which is due to exponential growth in world population. Integration of distributed generation has increased due to its immense advantages like low loading of transmission network, improvement in voltage profile and decrease in line losses. Despite of many advantages distributed generation also poses various adverse effects on network like harmonics, network protection, frequency instability and increase in short-circuit current level. However, it is difficult to eliminate the fault behavior due to dispersed nature of distributed generation that might affect the performance of power system protection. This is due to the change in power flow and magnitude of fault current. In this paper the effect of distributed generation on fault current level and protection of radial distribution feeder of National University of Science and Technology is studied. Three phase fault is simulated and analyzed for radial distribution network of National University of Science and Technology in MATLAB Simulink.