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| A Load Flow Analysis on Medium Scale Consumers: A Case Study of Kapeka Namunkekera Industrial Area, Uganda
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Kibirige David , Kanyana Ruth,Nakitto Immaculate, Kitone Isaac,Njubo Nelson, Makumbi David, Baguma Abdul Majid, Twikirize Michael, Namulawa Hawa, Muyunga Godfrey, Afam Uzorka
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Abstract:
Uganda has over the years embarked on a rural electrification project to help extend electricity from the national grid to communities currently unable to access clean energy. This project has enhanced economic and social development in areas outside Kampala, the capital city; however, as the infrastructure and industrial development gained ground, there has been a strain on the load flow in the established industrial parks. Power flow analysis equips power system engineers with all the essential data for building a secure, stable, and reliable power system. Power flow analysis talks about the line flows of active and reactive power and bus bar values of voltage magnitude and phase difference, and it also explains ways of overcoming such problems like adding parallel transformers, transmission lines in parallel with the installed lines, and also adding parallel generators. In this paper, a numerical method for contingency analysis was used to predict contingencies that cause system violations and rank the contingencies according to their relative severity. A simulation of the network of 8 buses in the Kapeka Namunkekera industrial area was done, and the results showed that the network was heavily loaded due to the new factories that were established in that region, thus affecting the small-scale consumers.
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