Experimental Characterization Test of a Grid-Forming Inverter for Microgrid Applications

Jing Wang; Subhankar Ganguly; Ramanathan Thiagarajan; Mariko Shirazi; Nischal Guruwacharya; Jack Flicker; Benjamin Kroposki

doi:10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362850

Experimental Characterization Test of a Grid-Forming Inverter for Microgrid Applications

Jing Wang, Subhankar Ganguly, Ramanathan Thiagarajan, Mariko Shirazi, Nischal Guruwacharya, Jack Flicker, Benjamin Kroposki

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Abstract

Standardized experimental testing protocols for grid forming (GFM) inverters to ensure expected operation under both normal and contingency conditions do not exist. Such protocols increase the confidence of system owner/operators that an inverter deployed in a proposed system will engage in typical behaviors to ensure interoperability with other units and ancillary equipment (e.g. protection equipment). This paper presents systematic and comprehensive test protocols to evaluate the performance of GFM inverters under the following operational configurations: islanded operation, heterogeneous islanded operation (parallel with a synchronous generator), grid-connected operation, and transition operation. A commercial GFM inverter is used to verify the test protocols and to understand the inverter’s performance and functionalities. In particular, required configuration and tuning of the inverter will be explained in the full paper to enrich the testing protocol.

Original language	American English
Pages	978-985
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362850
State	Published - 2023
Event	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo 2023 - Nashville Duration: 29 Oct 2023 → 2 Nov 2023

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Conference	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo 2023
City	Nashville
Period	29/10/23 → 2/11/23

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-85381 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-88823

Keywords

black start
droop control
grid-following inverters
grid-forming inverters
transient stability

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Experimental Characterization Test of a Grid-Forming Inverter for Microgrid Applications

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