@article{Khan_Amir_2021, title={Design and Stability Analysis of a proposed Microgrid for on Campus Diesel and Photovoltaic Power Sources: Microgrid for Islanding Mode}, volume={58}, url={https://ppaspk.org/index.php/PPAS-A/article/view/507}, DOI={10.53560/PPASA(58-1)723}, abstractNote={<p>Pakistan is currently facing an energy crisis that is detrimental to its growth. Due to persistent load shedding <br>by the National Grid throughout the country, the latest trend is tilting towards generating power at localized level <br>through a mix of renewable and conventional energy sources. Such a mixture is referred to as Distributed Energy <br>Resource (DER). Part of such a DER (i.e. solar energy) is free as naturally and mostly available in Pakistan having <br>no degradation problem while providing benefit to the locality. The idea of using a Microgrid for our local power <br>needs morphed accordingly. In this paper, a Microgrid design for our local campus i.e. University of Engineering & <br>Technology, Peshawar, KPK is proposed. Our campus generators are not interconnected. Consequently, even while <br>servicing small load periods, all of our campus’s diesel generators run at full capacity at the same time. Such a <br>behavior is uneconomical, unacceptable and the generators run at low efficiency during islanding from the main utility <br>grid. It is seen that behavior as such is endemic throughout Pakistan. Through design and analysis, it is proposed <br>that if a Microgrid of such unconnected resources on campus is formed then during islanding, all generators and <br>our Photovoltaic (PV) systems will economically and efficiently feed their common loads through load sharing. <br>Synchronization, load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, harmonic analysis, transient stability, cost and reliability of <br>our proposed Microgrid is analyzed using ETAP (Electrical Transient Analyzer Program) in this paper.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences}, author={Khan, Muhammad Iftikhar and Amir, Muhammad}, year={2021}, month={Sep.}, pages={47–60} }