Sizing of photovoltaic power and storage system for optimized hosting capacity

This paper presents an approach to optimized sizing of a combined photovoltaic and storage system in order to reduce fluctuations in local supply network and increase the hosting capacity of the distribution network, on the example of remote rural area. All the computations were based on real production and consumption data acquired over long period of time in two different test installations, located in Poland and Germany. Genetic algorithms were applied optimize corresponding sizes of PV and storage guarantying the research objective.