ABSTRACT
Photovoltaic (PV) power generation has been steadily growing supported by large deployment campaigns in some countries. Most of the new PV capacity is assigned to grid-connected distributed power generation. This raises new engineering challenges at individual household level due to the intermittency of the solar resource. DESIGEN reads the end-use load for each network node in the power distribution network from a file. In practice, the load data is simulated separately using a statistical approach to handle a large load data set. In addition to customer loads, distributed generation technologies can be included into the distribution network modelled by DESIGEN. The power generation units form their own nodes in the distribution network for modelling reasons. In this chapter only local PV generation is described, but the DESIGEN also includes other technology options.
