Examining System-Wide Impacts of Solar PV Control Systems with a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform

Bryan Palmintier; Blake Lundstrom; Tess Williams; Jason Fuller; Kevin Schneider; Sudipta Chakraborty

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925336

Examining System-Wide Impacts of Solar PV Control Systems with a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform

Bryan Palmintier, Blake Lundstrom, Tess Williams, Jason Fuller, Kevin Schneider, Sudipta Chakraborty

Power Systems Engineering

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Abstract

High penetration levels of distributed solar PV power generation may lead to adverse power quality impacts. Advanced inverter control schemes have the potential to mitigate many power quality concerns. However, interactions between local closed-loop controls may lead to unintended behavior in deployed systems. To study the performance of advanced control schemes in a detailed distribution system environment, a test platform has been developed that integrates Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) with concurrent time-series electric distribution system simulation. In the test platform, GridLAB-D, a distribution system simulation tool, runs a detailed simulation of a distribution feeder in real-time mode at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and supplies power system parameters at a point of common coupling. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a hardware inverter interacts with grid and PV simulators emulating an operational distribution system. The platform is described and initial test cases are presented.

Original language	American English
Pages	2082-2087
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925336 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925336
State	Published - 15 Oct 2014
Event	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014 - Denver, United States Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014

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Conference	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	8/06/14 → 13/06/14

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NREL/CP-5D00-61287

Keywords

distributed power generation
power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL)
power system simulation
solar power generation
testing
voltage control

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Palmintier, B., Lundstrom, B., Williams, T., Fuller, J., Schneider, K., & Chakraborty, S. (2014). Examining System-Wide Impacts of Solar PV Control Systems with a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform. 2082-2087. Paper presented at 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014, Denver, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925336, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925336

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