Dynamic reactive power management based on forecasts and chronological power flow

EDP Distribuição (EDPD) is developing methodologies to establish a dynamic ‘next-day’ reactive power management plan based on load and generation forecasts for 100k connection points of the high voltage/medium voltage Portuguese network. This is achieved by using a Big Data platform to compute the 100k forecast profiles whose results are then accessed by an optimal power-flow software. This study ...