| Abstract |
Today, there are postulations of increasing global climate change which have sparked interest in the use of alternative green energy sources including geothermal. Currently, hydro power comprises over 60 percent of the installed capacity in Kenya and is sourced from various Hydro power plant (HEPs) stations spread around the Tana River, Turkwel and Sondu Miriu and the rest comes from geothermal energy, thermal and wind. To meet the growing demand for electric energy, Kenya though the Vision 2030 medium industrialized country blue print, the nation plans to build numerous geothermal plants in coming years for the 5000 MW from geothermal energy alone. This will immensely increase the proportion of geothermal energy of the total generated energy in the power system. This addition of geothermal power will change the power system dynamics especially power system stability. [1][2] This research proposal aims to analyze power system stability due to increased Integration of geothermal power in the Kenyan grid as number of geothermal power plants are connected to the Kenyan power system, its impact/ effect on system transient, small signal, and frequency and voltage stabilities needs to be interrogated by transmission operators, power system engineers and scholars. It is intended through the research to develop and simulate the current hydro power plants in Kenya and effects of increasing geothermal plants on constant hydro power plants and generation dynamic condition, with increased geothermal penetration. Assessment of system transient analysis of the power system with steady increase in geothermal penetration under system fault is investigated. The research will be based on model in power system simulation software like Dig Silent or any other comparable software. [15][16][20] |