Experimental Evaluation of Grid Support Enabled PV Inverter Response to Abnormal Grid Conditions

Austin Nelson; Gregory Martin; James Hurtt

doi:10.1109/ISGT.2017.8086016

Experimental Evaluation of Grid Support Enabled PV Inverter Response to Abnormal Grid Conditions

Austin Nelson, Gregory Martin, James Hurtt

Florida Power & Light

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Abstract

As revised interconnection standards for grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) inverters address new advanced grid support functions (GSFs), there is increasing interest in inverter performance in the case of abnormal grid conditions. The growth of GSF-enabled inverters has outpaced the industry standards that define their operation, although recently published updates to UL1741 Supplement SA define test conditions for GSFs such as volt-var control, frequency-watt control, and voltage/frequency ride-through, among others. This paper describes the results of a comparative experimental evaluation on four commercially available, three-phase PV inverters in the 24.0-39.8 kVA power range on their GSF capability and its effect on abnormal grid condition response. The evaluation examined the impact particular GSF implementations have on run-on times during islanding conditions, peak voltages in load rejection overvoltage scenarios, and peak currents during single-phase and three-phase fault events for individual inverters. Testing results indicated a wide variance in the performance of GSF enabled inverters to various test cases.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2017.8086016 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2017.8086016
State	Published - 26 Oct 2017
Event	2017 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2017 - Washington, United States Duration: 23 Apr 2017 → 26 Apr 2017

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Conference	2017 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington
Period	23/04/17 → 26/04/17

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See NREL/CP-5D00-67576 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-71019

Keywords

Anti-islanding
Fault current
Frequency-watt control
Load rejection overvoltage
Ride-through
Volt-var control

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Nelson, A, Martin, G & Hurtt, J 2017, 'Experimental Evaluation of Grid Support Enabled PV Inverter Response to Abnormal Grid Conditions', Paper presented at 2017 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2017, Washington, United States, 23/04/17 - 26/04/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2017.8086016, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2017.8086016

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