Integrating More Solar with Smart Inverters: Preprint

Anderson Hoke; Julieta Giraldez Miner; Martha Symko-Davies; Benjamin Kroposki; Earle Ifuku; Marc Asano; Reid Ueda; Dean Arakawa

Integrating More Solar with Smart Inverters: Preprint

Anderson Hoke, Julieta Giraldez Miner, Martha Symko-Davies, Benjamin Kroposki, Earle Ifuku, Marc Asano, Reid Ueda, Dean Arakawa

Hawaiian Electric Company

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Abstract

In Hawai'i, the relatively high cost of electricity costs coupled with various incentives have made it cost-effective to install solar photovoltaics (PV) on residential homes and larger central-station PV plants. On some of the islands, PV has reached over 50% of the installed generation capacity base. To make sure these inverter-based PV plants can maintain stable and safe operations, new smart inverter functionality is being evaluated and demonstrated at significant scale across the islands This paper describes research conducted to validate high PV penetration scenarios with smart inverters and recent progress on the use of these advanced inverter grid support functions in actual power grids in Hawai'i.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	7
State	Published - 2018
Event	at the 2018 Grand Renewable Energy Conference - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 17 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference	at the 2018 Grand Renewable Energy Conference
City	Yokohama, Japan
Period	17/06/18 → 22/06/18

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-71766

Keywords

grid integration
grid support functions
photovoltaic
smart inverter

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Integrating More Solar with Smart Inverters: Preprint

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