PROJECT TITLE :

Lab Tests: Verifying That Smart Grid Power Converters Are Truly Smart

ABSTRACT:

Throughout the previous few years, several countries around the planet have seen a massive deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) in their distribution systems. In sure regions, penetration has reached levels that increasingly challenge ancient power system management, affecting the general stability, reliability, and potency of grids. The uncoordinated response of enormous numbers of DERs could even place overall grid security in danger. This truth was clearly highlighted by the famous fifty.2 Hz problem in Europe: it had been discovered that the simultaneous tripping of several gigawatts of DERs thanks to a minor overfrequency event may potentially result in an undersupply in the European power system thus massive that it may not be compensated for by using conventional reserve capacities.