Technical Presentations

Impact of Renewables on System Protection768

Abstract
The presentation will describe how EMTP with its wind turbine model library, as well as its relay model library are being used at EPRI research projects to perform case studies for EPRI member utiliti... see morees.

The integration of inverter based resources (IBRs) into power systems introduces several technical challenges. One major challenge is the impact on system protection, resulting from the complex fault response characteristics of IBRs which are interfaced with the grid through power electronics and do not behave similar to conventional synchronous generators. EPRI is investigating the performance of legacy protection schemes in systems with high levels of IBRs, and potential misoperations which will compromise the grid reliability.