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1 Active Management of Low-Voltage Networks for Mitigating Overvoltages due to Photovoltaic Units ´ ´ Frederic Olivier, Student Member, IEEE, Petros Aristidou, Student Member, IEEE, Damien Ernst, Member, IEEE, and Thierry Van Cutsem, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—In this paper, the overvoltage problems that might those investments and increase the hosting capacity of the arise from the integration of photovoltaic panels into low-voltage networks [7]. distribution networks is addressed. A distributed scheme is These schemes, referred to under the term of Active Net- proposed that adjusts the reactive and active power output of inverters to prevent or alleviate such problems. The proposed work Management, usually control the DNs’ power generation, scheme is model-free and makes use of limited communication consumption or storage to prevent or mitigate overvoltage between the controllers, in the form of a distress signal, only dur- problems. ing emergency conditions. It prioritizes the use of reactive power, while active power curtailment is performed only as a last resort. The behavior of the scheme is studied using dynamic simulations A. Literature review on a single low-voltage feeder and on a larger network composed of 14 low-voltage feeders. Its performance is compared to a Some of the schemes proposed in the literature can be centralized scheme based on the solution of an Optimal Power classified as centralized: