Performance Specifications for Grid-Forming Technologies

Deepak Ramasubramanian; Benjamin Kroposki; Sairaj Dhople; Dominic Gross; Anderson Hoke; Wenzong Wang; Shahil Shah; Philip Hart; Gab-Su Seo; Michael Ropp; Wei Du; Vijay Vittal; Raja Ayyanar; Jack Flicker; Joseph Benzaquen; Brian Johnson; Pedro Arsuaga; Sebastian Achilles; Siddharth Pant; Rojan Bhattarai; Dustin Howard; Maozhong Gong; Deepak Divan; Aidan Tuoh

doi:10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440

Performance Specifications for Grid-Forming Technologies

Deepak Ramasubramanian, Benjamin Kroposki, Sairaj Dhople, Dominic Gross, Anderson Hoke, Wenzong Wang, Shahil Shah, Philip Hart, Gab-Su Seo, Michael Ropp, Wei Du, Vijay Vittal, Raja Ayyanar, Jack Flicker, Joseph Benzaquen, Brian Johnson, Pedro Arsuaga, Sebastian Achilles, Siddharth Pant, Rojan BhattaraiDustin Howard, Maozhong Gong, Deepak Divan, Aidan Tuoh

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Abstract

Standards and specifications for inverter-based resources (IBRs) focus primarily on grid-following (GFL) technologies at present. Therefore, these may generally not be appropriate for application in power systems to ensure acceptable operation with grid-forming (GFM) technologies. In some cases, the direct application of prevailing standards and specifications may not be appropriate for - or may even inadvertently limit the potential of - GFM resources. The Universal Interoperability for Grid- Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium is a U.S. Department of Energy funded effort to advance GFM technology. The UNIFI team brings together academic, industrial, and national-lab researchers as well as industry stakeholders (utilities, system operators, vendors) to collaboratively pursue advances in a broad range of GFM technologies. This paper introduces a set of system- and unit-level specifications driven by consensus across the UNIFI project team. These are intended to seamlessly integrate GFM technologies at any scale into power-systems operation and control in a vendor-agnostic manner. A suite of illustrative simulation results that demonstrate the application of and adherence to the proposed specifications are included.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440
State	Published - 2023
Event	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Orlando, FL Duration: 16 Jul 2023 → 20 Jul 2023

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Conference	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
City	Orlando, FL
Period	16/07/23 → 20/07/23

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NREL/CP-5D00-85438

Keywords

grid-forming inverter
renewable integration
stability

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Ramasubramanian, D., Kroposki, B., Dhople, S., Gross, D., Hoke, A., Wang, W., Shah, S., Hart, P., Seo, G.-S., Ropp, M., Du, W., Vittal, V., Ayyanar, R., Flicker, J., Benzaquen, J., Johnson, B., Arsuaga, P., Achilles, S., Pant, S., ... Tuoh, A. (2023). Performance Specifications for Grid-Forming Technologies. Paper presented at IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Orlando, FL. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440

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Ramasubramanian, D, Kroposki, B, Dhople, S, Gross, D, Hoke, A, Wang, W, Shah, S, Hart, P, Seo, G-S, Ropp, M, Du, W, Vittal, V, Ayyanar, R, Flicker, J, Benzaquen, J, Johnson, B, Arsuaga, P, Achilles, S, Pant, S, Bhattarai, R, Howard, D, Gong, M, Divan, D & Tuoh, A 2023, 'Performance Specifications for Grid-Forming Technologies', Paper presented at IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Orlando, FL, 16/07/23 - 20/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440

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