Stability analysis of connected large-scale renewable energy sources into Jordanian national power grid

ABSTRACT

Electricity and the underlying infrastructure for its production, transmission, and distribution are essential to the well-being of society. Jordan does not have the natural resources as its neighbours and imports 97% of its energy and fuel requirements, nearly 20% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. The rising cost of importing energy resources has forced the government to reconsider its energy consumption policies and address the issue of reliance on international energy markets for direct imports. This paper aims to study the effect of integrating large-scale renewable energy on the stabile behaviour of Jordanian transmission grid based on the 2017 scenario, and all analyses are made by DigSILENT; as a result of this paper, we understand when the system reaches the peak load, the grid will be stable, but the system will face unstable situations when the system reaches low load due to loss of wind.

KEYWORDS:

• Stability
• analysis
• renewable energy
• power grid

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