Autonomous Microgrid Restoration Using Grid-Forming Inverters and Smart Circuit Breakers: Preprint

Abhishek Banerjee; Amit Pandey; Uttam Pailla; Gab-Su Seo; Shashank Shekhar; Himanshu Jain; Yashen Lin; Xiaofan Wu; Joachim Bamberger; Ulrich Muenz

Autonomous Microgrid Restoration Using Grid-Forming Inverters and Smart Circuit Breakers: Preprint

Abhishek Banerjee, Amit Pandey, Uttam Pailla, Gab-Su Seo, Shashank Shekhar, Himanshu Jain, Yashen Lin, Xiaofan Wu, Joachim Bamberger, Ulrich Muenz

Power Systems Engineering

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Abstract

The proliferation of distributed inverter-based resources (IBRs) raises the questions if these IBRs can be used to blackstart microgrids and distribution feeders after major outages. In this paper, we propose and evaluate an autonomous microgrid restoration concept using grid-forming (GFM) IBRs and smart circuit creakers (SCBs). The concept is first explored in simulation platform and then a hardware testbed containing actual GFM inverters is developed to demonstrate these functionalities. A combination of dispatchable virtual oscillator control (dVOC) and droop-based control schemes have been designed for GFM inverter controls in the software simulations and hardware testbed. Subsequently, operation of SCBs using two distinct principles have been demonstrated that can restore or connect portions of the network.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting - Denver, Colorado Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022

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Conference	2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
City	Denver, Colorado
Period	17/07/22 → 21/07/22

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-84952 for paper as published in proceedings

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-78457

Keywords

grid reconfiguration
grid-forming inverters
inverter black start
resiliency
smart circuit breaker
virtual oscillator control

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Autonomous Microgrid Restoration Using Grid-Forming Inverters and Smart Circuit Breakers: Preprint

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