Garae Liu, ALie, TT2020-03-192020-03-192019-10-242019-10-24In 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia) (pp. 1282-1287). IEEE.978-1-7281-3520-5https://hdl.handle.net/10292/13214This study intends to investigate the voltage drop issue along the Mahia distribution network (11kV line) and further assess the feasibility of developing a grid tied 1MW solar farm in Wairoa District, New Zealand. The objective is to provide the solution for Wairoa's local distribution Company to mitigate Voltage drops and increasing summer load demand arising due to the influx of visitors (est. spike of 800 to 3-5000 visitor's over a 2-week period) to Mahia Peninsular. Furthermore, a solution to avoid transmission charges, increase supply security, reducing peak load demand and aim at substituting the non-environmental friendly operated 1MW diesel generator in Mahia.Copyright © 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Photovoltaic (PV); Voltage Drop; Distribution networkConference ContributionOpenAccess10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2019.8881646