Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations
This paper reviews potential operational challenges facing hybrid power plants, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) plus battery energy storage systems (BESS). Real-world operation has witnessed many challenges, e.g., overvoltage at fault recovery, oscillations during solar PV ramping up, large pha...
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| description | This paper reviews potential operational challenges facing hybrid power plants, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) plus battery energy storage systems (BESS). Real-world operation has witnessed many challenges, e.g., overvoltage at fault recovery, oscillations during solar PV ramping up, large phase angle change during faults, etc. This paper reviews potential operational challenges while focusing on those caused by plant-level control and inverter-level control coordination. To this end, detailed plant-level frequency-power droop control and voltage control are presented. Effect of the communication delay from the plant level to the inverter level is examined. This paper also presents recommendations on how to test hybrid power plants to detect those potential operational challenges in the planning stage. The contribution of the paper is two-fold: 1) A list of operational challenges has been reviewed with several analyzed in detail and demonstrated in case studies. Modeling and testing recommendations to capture those challenges in the planning stage have been presented. 2) The paper presents the details of IBR controls at both the plant level and the inverter level, elucidating the connection between control parameters and operational challenges. Mitigation plans, e.g., control parameter tuning, can be derived based on the insights revealed from this research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-914b4433164247e9bd4dc16f990345242024-01-19T00:01:35ZengIEEEIEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy2687-79102023-01-011047748910.1109/OAJPE.2023.328437510146308Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling RecommendationsLingling Fan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4686-1602Zhixin Miao1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5623-4074Deepak Ramasubramanian2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3989-1739Huazhao Ding3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USADepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAElectric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, TN, USADepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAThis paper reviews potential operational challenges facing hybrid power plants, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) plus battery energy storage systems (BESS). Real-world operation has witnessed many challenges, e.g., overvoltage at fault recovery, oscillations during solar PV ramping up, large phase angle change during faults, etc. This paper reviews potential operational challenges while focusing on those caused by plant-level control and inverter-level control coordination. To this end, detailed plant-level frequency-power droop control and voltage control are presented. Effect of the communication delay from the plant level to the inverter level is examined. This paper also presents recommendations on how to test hybrid power plants to detect those potential operational challenges in the planning stage. The contribution of the paper is two-fold: 1) A list of operational challenges has been reviewed with several analyzed in detail and demonstrated in case studies. Modeling and testing recommendations to capture those challenges in the planning stage have been presented. 2) The paper presents the details of IBR controls at both the plant level and the inverter level, elucidating the connection between control parameters and operational challenges. Mitigation plans, e.g., control parameter tuning, can be derived based on the insights revealed from this research.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10146308/Inverter-based resourceshybrid power plantsoperational challenges |
| spellingShingle | Lingling Fan Zhixin Miao Deepak Ramasubramanian Huazhao Ding Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy Inverter-based resources hybrid power plants operational challenges |
| title | Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations |
| title_full | Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations |
| title_fullStr | Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations |
| title_short | Operational Challenges of Solar PV Plus Storage Power Plants and Modeling Recommendations |
| title_sort | operational challenges of solar pv plus storage power plants and modeling recommendations |
| topic | Inverter-based resources hybrid power plants operational challenges |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10146308/ |
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