Advanced Distribution Protection for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER)

Conference · Tue Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1557083

Velaga, Yaswanth Nag ^[1]; Prabakar, Kumaraguru  ^[1]; Singh, Akanksha ^[1]; Sen, Pankaj K. ^[2]; Kroposki, Benjamin D ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Colorado School of Mines

With the large amount of distributed energy resources (DER) being added in distribution networks, protection will become a major challenge due to low fault currents and reverse power flows. Present protection schemes that are based on simple over current philosophy will not be adequate. Advanced protection schemes, which can adapt to the changing system configuration is essential. Time-domain based protection that is independent of fault current magnitudes and direction is proposed to enhance the distribution protection.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1557083
• Report Number(s): NREL/PO-5D00-74384
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 4-8 August 2019, Atlanta, Georgia
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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