An Efficient Integration Strategy of the Prosumers in the Active Electric Distribution Networks

Nowadays, the European citizens, communities, cities, and local authorities increasingly control and produce their energy from renewable sources, speeding up the transition to the active electric distribution networks (AEDNs). The high number of connected prosumers has immediate implications for the operation of the AEDNs due to growing shares of renewable energy generation. Their integration without developing some strategies at the level of each AEDN can lead to operating issues. Thus, an efficient strategy has been developed in the paper to integrate the prosumers in the AEDNs (through identifying the optimal connection phase and the pillar for each prosumer), aiming to minimize energy losses. The obtained results in the case of a real AEDN highlighted the performance of the proposed strategy compared to the classic one in which the old connection phase is maintained for the prosumers. The energy losses in the analyzed time interval (one day) decreased in half (from 8.4% using the classical strategy to 4.1% with the proposed strategy).