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About the session
Dr Omar Jasim, GE Vernova, United Kingdom
Presentation Summary
Replacing conventional power plants with synchronous generators with alternatives like renewable energy sources (RES), such as wind and solar farms, results in grid instability and a lack of inertia. Converters are gradually dominating grids and making AC voltage and frequency more sensitive to variations in reactive and active powers. The AC grid is more vulnerable to many sorts of instabilities, including those caused by converters. Therefore, there is a need to develop synchronous grid-forming converters with additional functionality, which will enable new converters to provide a fault response that is more similar to that provided by synchronous machines while still respecting the need to keep transient currents within the limits of the IGBT capability. However, the actual impact of this control will be dependent on the source of energy and the expected steady-state behaviour of the equipment.
