Integrated MV-LV network modelling for DER studies

Despite the fact that residential distributed energy resources (DERs) are connected to low voltage (LV) networks, the analysis of large areas (thousands of houses) is typically done considering only the medium voltage (MV) part. Due to the lack of LV network data, most studies simplify them as lumped loads. While this is a reasonable assumption in the absence of data, it ignores the radial and unb...