Electric Grid Modeling for Distributed Generation Applications

Electric power systems today are undergoing a paradigm shift in operational and market philosophy through technologies like distributed generation and the "smart grid."

Decentralizing the power system and allowing users to inject power into the grid, however, introduces a wide array of problems, and much research has gone towards implementing a growing number of small generation sources throughout the existing electric power network infrastructure.

This thesis describes the issues involved in reducing a typical rural distribution feeder to a model that can be used for distributed generation interconnection studies, particularly for islanding studies.