Pathways to the Next-Generation Power System With Inverter-Based Resources: Challenges and recommendations

Journal Article · Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2022 · IEEE Electrification Magazine

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/mele.2021.3139132· OSTI ID:1867605

Lin, Yashen ^[1]; Eto, Joseph H. ^[2]; Johnson, Brian B. ^[3]; Flicker, Jack D. ^[4]; Lasseter, Robert H. ^[5]; Villegas Pico, Hugo N. ^[6]; Seo, Gab-Su ^[1]; Pierre, Brian J. ^[4]; Ellis, Abraham ^[4]; Miller, Jeremiah ^[7]; Yuan, Guohui ^[7]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
5. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
6. Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
7. U.S. Department of Energy Solar Technologies Office, Washington, D.C (United States)

Managing the stability of today's electric power systems is based on decades of experience with the physical properties and control responses of large synchronous generators. Today's electric power systems are rapidly transitioning toward having an increasing proportion of generation from nontraditional sources, such as wind and solar (among others), as well as energy storage devices, such as batteries. In addition to the variable nature of many renewable generation sources (because of the weather-driven nature of their fuel supply), these newer sources vary in size - from residential-scale rooftop systems to utility-scale power plants - and they are interconnected throughout the electric grid, both from within the distribution system and directly to the high-voltage transmission system. Most important for our purposes, many of these new resources are connected to the power system through power electronic inverters. Collectively, we refer to these sources as inverter-based resources.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231; AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1867605
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1869278
• Report Number(s): NREL/JA-5D00-81734; ark:/13030/qt13j5p663
• Journal Information: IEEE Electrification Magazine, Journal Name: IEEE Electrification Magazine Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2325-5897
• Publisher: IEEE Xplore
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
inverters
power system stability
synchronous generators
system performance
systems operation
wind energy generation
wind power generation