On Grid-Interactive Smart Inverters: Features and Advancements

Mirafzal, Behrooz; Adib, Aswad

doi:10.1109/access.2020.3020965

Title: On Grid-Interactive Smart Inverters: Features and Advancements

Journal Article · 01 September 2020 · IEEE Access

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3020965 · OSTI ID:1811142

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Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Traditionally, a grid-interactive inverter providing ancillary services is called a smart inverter. However, broader features will be required for the next generation of inverters that can be categorized as self-governing, self-adapting, self-security, and self-healing. For grid-interactive inverters, the self-governing feature can be identified as the capability of inverters to operate in grid-following and grid-forming control modes, where the self-adapting is referred to as more flexibility realized by adaptive controllers for stable dynamics of inverters under various grid conditions. Moreover, for supervisory control and economic dispatch in a grid with high-penetration of inverter-based power generators, a minimum communication might be necessary, but it can place grid-interactive inverters in danger of being hacked when self-security becomes essential to identify malicious setpoints. Furthermore, the self-healing is defined as fault-tolerance and stress reduction under abnormal conditions. It suggests that after realizing these features, an inverter is called a smart inverter. In this paper, the advancements toward achieving these features for grid-interactive inverters are reviewed.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; EE0008767

OSTI ID:: 1811142

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1669738; OSTI ID: 1861111; OSTI ID: 1907552

Journal Information:: IEEE Access, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2169-3536

Publisher:: IEEECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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