TY - GEN
T1 - Performance Specifications for Grid-forming Technologies
AU - Ramasubramanian, Deepak
AU - Kroposki, Benjamin
AU - Dhople, Sairaj
AU - Gros, Dominic
AU - Hoke, Anderson
AU - Wang, Wenzong
AU - Shah, Shahil
AU - Hart, Philip
AU - Seo, Gab Su
AU - Ropp, Michael
AU - Du, Wei
AU - Vittal, Vijay
AU - Ayyanar, Raja
AU - Flicker, Jack
AU - Benzaquen, Joseph
AU - Johnson, Brian
AU - Arsuaga, Pedro
AU - Achilles, Sebastian
AU - Pant, Siddharth
AU - Bhattarai, Rojan
AU - Howard, Dustin
AU - Gong, Maozhong
AU - Divan, Deepak
AU - Tuohy, Aidan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Standards and specifications for inverter-based resources (IBRs) focus primarily on grid-following (GFL) technologies at present. Therefore, these may generally not be appropriate for application in power systems to ensure acceptable operation with grid-forming (GFM) technologies. In some cases, the direct application of prevailing standards and specifications may not be appropriate for - or may even inadvertently limit the potential of - GFM resources. The Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium is a U.S. Department of Energy funded effort to advance GFM technology. The UNIFI team brings together academic, industrial, and national-lab researchers as well as industry stakeholders (utilities, system operators, vendors) to collaboratively pursue advances in a broad range of GFM technologies. This paper introduces a set of system- and unit-level specifications driven by consensus across the UNIFI project team. These are intended to seamlessly integrate GFM technologies at any scale into power-systems operation and control in a vendor-agnostic manner. A suite of illustrative simulation results that demonstrate the application of and adherence to the proposed specifications are included.
AB - Standards and specifications for inverter-based resources (IBRs) focus primarily on grid-following (GFL) technologies at present. Therefore, these may generally not be appropriate for application in power systems to ensure acceptable operation with grid-forming (GFM) technologies. In some cases, the direct application of prevailing standards and specifications may not be appropriate for - or may even inadvertently limit the potential of - GFM resources. The Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium is a U.S. Department of Energy funded effort to advance GFM technology. The UNIFI team brings together academic, industrial, and national-lab researchers as well as industry stakeholders (utilities, system operators, vendors) to collaboratively pursue advances in a broad range of GFM technologies. This paper introduces a set of system- and unit-level specifications driven by consensus across the UNIFI project team. These are intended to seamlessly integrate GFM technologies at any scale into power-systems operation and control in a vendor-agnostic manner. A suite of illustrative simulation results that demonstrate the application of and adherence to the proposed specifications are included.
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U2 - 10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440
DO - 10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85174705322
T3 - IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
BT - 2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2023
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2023
Y2 - 16 July 2023 through 20 July 2023
ER -