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

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

doi:10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916679

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

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

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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 breakers (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	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916679 https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916679
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2022 - Denver, United States Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022

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Conference	2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	17/07/22 → 21/07/22

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-78457 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-84952

Keywords

black start
grid reconfiguration
Grid-forming inverters
smart circuit breaker

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Banerjee, A., Pandey, A., Pailla, U. R., Seo, G. S., Shekhar, S., Jain, H., Lin, Y., Wu, X., Bamberger, J., & Muenz, U. (2022). Autonomous Microgrid Restoration Using Grid-Forming Inverters and Smart Circuit Breakers. Paper presented at 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2022, Denver, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916679, https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916679

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

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