Grid Forming Battery Energy Storage for Improving the Reliability of Eversource’s Distribution System
Power and Energy Society
Speakers: Ling Yang, Senior Engineer in Distribution Planning, Eversource Energy and Goodarz Ghanavati, PhD, Principal Engineer in Transmission Planning, Eversource Energy
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Presentation starts at 6:00PM
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This presentation will provide an overview of the study of a battery energy storage project intended to improve the reliability of the Eversource’s distribution system. The project includes installing a grid forming battery energy storage system. Grid forming inverters are one of the most promising technologies to overcome technical challenges of operating power systems with a large share of inverter-based renewable generation. These types of inverters have been deployed in small/islanded systems in the past few years, but the study looks at one of the largest/first deployments in a major interconnection. The study showcases the capability of grid forming inverters to operate reliably under ultra-weak grid conditions, improve the system reliability by seamless transition from the grid-connected to the islanded (microgrid) mode in case of a transmission or upstream distribution fault. The talk will discuss control stability and grounding challenges faced over the course of the study and mitigation measures to address those
Ling Yang is a Senior Distribution Planning Engineer at Eversource Energy. Ms. Yang has 9 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. She received her B.S.E.E. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University and M.S.E.E. with a concentration in Power Systems from Northeastern University. Ling is currently a member of the CIGRE WG C4.60 “GENERIC EMTtype modeling of inverter-based resources for long term planning studies”.
Goodarz Ghanavati is a Principal Transmission Planning Engineer at Eversource Energy. Dr. Ghanavati has 9 years of experience in the power industry. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont. He has published several papers in various power systems journals and conference proceedings. Goodarz is currently a member of the CIGRE WG C4.60 “GENERIC EMT-type modeling of inverter-based resources for long term planning studies”.
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