Power Tracing in Distribution Network in Deregulated Power Environment

This has become essential to analyse the impact of a particular generator on the power system in deregulated power environment. The use of power tracing methods can solve this issue and able to detect the exact contribution of a generator to loads or line losses. In this paper, the active power tracing has been done in the distribution system for the first time. The power tracing has been done using the upstream looking algorithm. The algorithm is based on the famous `proportional sharing principle' (PSP). The proposed approach has been verified with IEEE 33-bus and 85-bus distribution test systems. The case studies have been extended to assess the flow of active power without and with Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in power system. All the simulations have been done in MATLAB environment. The proposed approach gives promising results which will be helpful for better analysis of existing tariffs for transmission loss and services.