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Impact of Small Hydropower Plant on Improvement of Voltage Level and Energy Efficie ncies

Abstract

In recent years in Albanian due to liberalisation of energy market, the built of small hydropower plants (SHP)’s placed at the focus of private investitors. In this paper we will study the impact of Arras small hydropower plant which is built at Diber regional in Albanian power system such as energy efficiency and improvement of voltage level. This study is focused at a part of power system namely Diber area. From the analysis in the case of small hydropower plant connections with power system results in an improvement of voltage level, increasing the efficiency of power system and reduces significantly power transmission losses. We have achieved a model of a part of power system and we have calculated the power flow, level of voltage in different nodes and the transmission power losses of the system with NEPLAN software.

Astrit Bardhi, Myrteza Braneshi, Alfred Pjetri

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