Control Parameter Sensitivity Study for Inverter-Based-Resource Dominated Grids: A Small Signal Stability Approach and Framework
- National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO (United States)
The growing adoption of renewable energy is driving the prevalence of inverter-based resources (IBRs) within power grids. Future power grids will integrate both grid-following IBRs (GFM-IBRs) and grid-forming IBRs (GFL-IBRs) alongside synchronous generators. Therefore, it is crucial to perform stability studies that account for all components and especially control interactions related to IBRs. Extensive research has performed to study the IBR-related stability, however, the sensitivity study of IBRs' control parameters on system stability has not been adequately studied yet, especially from a systematic way. Therefore, this paper conducts a small signal stability analysis for a generic grid with multiple types of resources and develops an analytical framework for assessing the sensitivity of control parameters affecting stability margins. To achieve that, the non-autonomous reduced-order non-linear dynamic model is developed for a generic power system with multiple synchronous generator-based resources (SGBRs), GFM-IBRs, and GFL-IBRs. Based on the analytic model, a systematic framework for parametric sensitivity on systems' asymptotic stability is developed. A parameter sensitivity analysis based on eigenvalue methods is proposed. The impact of the droop controllers of GFM-IBRs, PQ-dispatch and the PLL controller of GFL-IBR on the system asymptotic stability is discussed. This sensitivity study is aiming to provide deep insights on control parameters' impact on system stability, and gives direction for parameter tuning in case of instability.
- Research Organization:
- National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308;
- OSTI ID:
- 3030030
- Report Number(s):
- NLR/PO-5D00-97630
- Resource Type:
- Conference poster
- Conference Information:
- Presented at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2025), 19-23 October 2025, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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