Effects of the future trends in distribution networks

Abstract

The main target of this paper is to clarify which way different future trends effect on electricity network. The paper illustrates changes in load rates for instance on the distribution transformer level in different scenarios with electric vehicles and distributed generation. Results help DSOs to create a suitable network development strategy for the future. Results reflect the situation mainly in sparsely populated rural areas and they are based on actual network and hourly measured customer-specific load data of 10 000 customers from several years.