• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.311-321
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• 2019

With Korean Government's Renewable energy 3020 plan and 8th Basic plan for long-term power supply, renewable energy industries in Korea are active and catching attention from many relevant industry's relations. Especially with Interconnection guarantee policy established in Oct, 2016, DERs interconnection delay due to lack of allowable distribution hosting capacity is happening and reduction of reinforcement cost for distribution system where 70 % of DERs in South Korea are installed became one of important issues of KEPCO. Therefore, KEPCO needed to extract reasonable solutions to increase feasible hosting capacity of distribution feeders in order to reduce reinforcement cost under the condition of no matter in distribution system operation. This paper proposes feasible hosting capacity of distribution feeders that can be adopted and the status of DER installation in distribution system, PV output data, minimum load in distribution feeders as well as capacity of distribution lines have been investigated and analyzed in proof of the proposal.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.709-710
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• 2007

고도의 정보화 사회에서 유비쿼터스를 기반으로 하는 IT산업이 발전함에 따라 기존의 전국적으로 광범위하게 구축되어 있는 전력인프라를 활용하는 방안이 강구되었다. 또한 사회적으로 신성장 동력산업 추진에 한전의 주도적인 역할담당이 요구되어 이를 위한 사업개발이 필요하였고 그로인하여 한전 주도하에 전력선통신 사업을 추진하게 되었다. 전세계적으로 전력선통신(Power Line Communication) 기술은 디지털 통신 기술과 네트워크 기술의 발달로 차세대 유비쿼터스 네트워크를 구축하기 위한 효과적인 기술로 대두되고 있으며 일반 통신망보다도 더 광범위하게 분포하고 네트워크화가 되어 있어 최근 몇 년간 전력선 통신 기술은 전력선 통신 모뎀과 네트워크 기술에 대해 비약적인 발전이 이루어 졌다. 한전에서는 배전계통에 설치되어 있는 배전자동화시스템에 국가 연구개발과제로 개발되어진 전력선통신 기술을 시범 적용하여 전력과 IT의 융합을 통한 전력서비스의 혁신과 新 부가가치 창출을 통하여 새로운 차원의 고객만족 서비스를 실현하기 위해 노력하고 있다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2021

The government has proposed a mission to enhance intelligent power networks, decrease coal-fired generation, expand distributed energy resources, and promote energy prosumer into the distribution network in Korea. Installation cost of facility expansion to guaranteed interconnection with small distributed energy resources increases dramatically on KEPCO's distribution sector. And it is hard to withdraw in time. In addition, there are explicit research is required to meet the reliability on grid corresponding to the increase of distributed power. Infrastructure support for accommodating energy prosumer is also needed. Therefore, KEPCO is pushing transition to DSO by expanding distribution management scope and changing its roles. In addition, KEPCO is proactively preparing for integrated operation between distribution network and existing distributed power which is accommodated passively. KEPCO is also trying to accept multiple network users, e.g. building platforms, to manage a data and promote new markets. In the long term, transition to DSO will achieve saving investment costs for accommodating distributed sources and maintaining stable electrical quality. And it will be possible to create new business model using the platform to secure revenue.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기설비전문위원
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• pp.9-11
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• 2008

Lightning has been identified as one of the leading causes of outages on transmission and distribution systems. To protect the transmission and distribution line from lightning, the transmission lightning arrestor can be the effective facility on the power system. This paper will discuss Gapped type Arresters application results by analysing effects of lightning arrestors on transmission and distribution line.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2641-2643
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• 1999

This paper describes the first field demonstration of the distribution STATCON in Korea including installation and its evaluation for improving power quality in distribution system. The purpose of installation is to verify functionally the voltage source inverter based equipment for voltage regulation and harmonic mitigation in distribution line. The operational data resulting from field test and the site figure are included.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2016

Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of state-of-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2022

Although the distribution system has been structured as complicated as a mesh in the past, the connection points for each line are always kept open, so that it is operated as a radial distribution system (RDS). For RDS, the line utilization rate is determined according to the maximum load on the line, and the utilization rate is usually kept low. In addition, when a fault occurs in the RDS, a power outage of about 3 to 5 minutes occurs until the fault section is separated, and the healthy section is transferred to another line. To improve the disadvantages of the RDS, research on the construction of a networked distribution system (NDS) that linking multiple lines is in progress. Compared to the RDS, the NDS has advantages such as increased facility utilization, load leveling, self-healing, increased capacity connected to distributed generator, and resolution of terminal voltage drop. However, when a fault occurs in the network distribution system, fault current can flow in from all connected lines, and the direction of fault current varies depending on the fault point, so a high-precision fault current direction determination method and high-speed communication are required. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an accurate fault current direction determination method by comparing the peak value polarity of the fault current in the event of a fault, and a communication-based protection coordination method using this method.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.275-286
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• 2019

This paper presents real-time Direct Current (DC) network analysis applications for operation of DC distribution system or DC microgrid. These applications are installed on central Energy Management System (EMS) and provide solutions of DC network operation. To analysis DC distribution network, this paper proposes composition and sequence of applications. Algorithm of applications is presented in this paper. Demonstration tests are performed on DC distribution site in Gochang Power Testing Center of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). To verify the performance, developed DC applications installed on EMS. Scenarios for demonstration test of voltage control are presented. Finally, measured data, application output data and simulation data (by PSCAD/EMTDC) are compared and analyze accuracy of applications.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1901-1902
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• 2006

In recent years, it has been a worldwide trend that many power utilities gave their attention to develop and operate their power plants, substation and distribution systems. Following this trend, KEPCO(Korea Electric Power Corporation) has developed many electric automation systems with various communication networks. It has been natural that the automation systems are just focused on to remote devices when they come to be designed. But, we have to shift the focus to the automation system itself. We have developed the Multi-service Optical Transmission System (M-OTS) for electrical power systems. It can be adopt to not only distribution power field but also the transmission power field. The result strongly shows that the system is potentially beneficial in reliability, speed, and expandability. This paper presents some of initial design efforts and results toward a KEPCO's communication system in distribution areas.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.427-429
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• 2003

The reliability performance of distribution networks will be enhanced with the installation of application programs including feeder reconfiguration program for loss minimization and optimization of system capacity. Although the basic functions of remote monitoring and remote control provide no measurable cost benefit the suite of application programs developed and now being commissioned by KEPCO, the future will continue to offer this utility with substantial savings in system operational costs, improve system reliability and customer service.