Commercial PV Inverter IEEE 1547.1 Ride-Through Assessments Using an Automated PHIL Test Platform
Abstract
As more countries seek solutions to their de-carbonization targets using renewable energy (RE) technologies, interconnection standards and national grid codes for distributed energy resources (DER) are being updated to support higher penetrations of RE and improve grid stability. Common grid-code revisions mandate DER devices, such as solar inverters and energy storage systems, ride-through (RT) voltage and frequency disturbances. This is necessary because as the percentage of generation from DER increases, there is a greater risk power system faults will cause many or all DER to trip, triggering a substantial load-generation imbalance and possible cascading blackout. This paper demonstrates for the first time a methodology to verify commercial DER devices are compliant to new voltage, frequency, and rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) RT requirements established in IEEE Std. 1547-2018. The methodology incorporates a software automation tool, called the SunSpec System Validation Platform (SVP), in combination with a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system to execute the IEEE Std. 1547.1-2020 RT test protocols. In this paper, the approach is validated with two commercial photovoltaic inverters, the test results are analyzed for compliance, and improvements to the test procedure are suggested.
- Authors:
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[1];
[2]
- CanmetENERGY, Varennes (Canada)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1830530
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2021-13765J
Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073; 701510
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0003525; 34219
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energies
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; distributed energy resource (DER); renewable energy sources; solar; grid-support function; inverter; ride-through; photovoltaic (PV); smart grid
Citation Formats
Ninad, Nayeem, Apablaza-Arancibia, Estefan, Bui, Michel, and Johnson, Jay. Commercial PV Inverter IEEE 1547.1 Ride-Through Assessments Using an Automated PHIL Test Platform. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.3390/en14216936.
Ninad, Nayeem, Apablaza-Arancibia, Estefan, Bui, Michel, & Johnson, Jay. Commercial PV Inverter IEEE 1547.1 Ride-Through Assessments Using an Automated PHIL Test Platform. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14216936
Ninad, Nayeem, Apablaza-Arancibia, Estefan, Bui, Michel, and Johnson, Jay. Thu .
"Commercial PV Inverter IEEE 1547.1 Ride-Through Assessments Using an Automated PHIL Test Platform". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14216936. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1830530.
@article{osti_1830530,
title = {Commercial PV Inverter IEEE 1547.1 Ride-Through Assessments Using an Automated PHIL Test Platform},
author = {Ninad, Nayeem and Apablaza-Arancibia, Estefan and Bui, Michel and Johnson, Jay},
abstractNote = {As more countries seek solutions to their de-carbonization targets using renewable energy (RE) technologies, interconnection standards and national grid codes for distributed energy resources (DER) are being updated to support higher penetrations of RE and improve grid stability. Common grid-code revisions mandate DER devices, such as solar inverters and energy storage systems, ride-through (RT) voltage and frequency disturbances. This is necessary because as the percentage of generation from DER increases, there is a greater risk power system faults will cause many or all DER to trip, triggering a substantial load-generation imbalance and possible cascading blackout. This paper demonstrates for the first time a methodology to verify commercial DER devices are compliant to new voltage, frequency, and rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) RT requirements established in IEEE Std. 1547-2018. The methodology incorporates a software automation tool, called the SunSpec System Validation Platform (SVP), in combination with a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system to execute the IEEE Std. 1547.1-2020 RT test protocols. In this paper, the approach is validated with two commercial photovoltaic inverters, the test results are analyzed for compliance, and improvements to the test procedure are suggested.},
doi = {10.3390/en14216936},
journal = {Energies},
number = 21,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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