Grid-Forming Inverters in Modern Power Grids: Modeling, Control and Advanced Testing

As the penetration of inverter-based resources in power grids keeps increasing, inverter-grid interactions tend to bring in a series of challenges on the stability and quality of power supply. To tackle the challenges, grid-forming inverters that actively participate in regulating the voltage and frequency of the grid are involving into modern power grids. This special session serves to share the latest research progress and industry practice on the grid-forming inverters in modern power grids. Both normal operations and fault responses of grid-forming inverters in distribution and transmission grids are welcomed. Large-scale integration of grid-forming inverters towards a 100% power-electronics-based power system is also of interest for this special session.

Session Chairs:

Dr. Xiaonan Lu received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From September 2010 to August 2011, he was a guest Ph.D. student at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He was with Argonne National Laboratory, first as a Postdoc Appointee and then as an Energy Systems Scientist. In July 2018, he joined the College of Engineering at Temple University. Dr. Lu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is also the Guest Associate Editors of the Special Issues in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), including ‘Modeling, Topology and Control of Grid-Forming Inverters’ (2019), etc. Dr. Lu serves as Vice Chair or Topic Chair in IEEE ECCE 2016-2019. He also serves as the Secretary of Industrial Power Converters Committee (IPCC) in IEEE IAS.

Dr. Xiongfei Wang is a Professor and Research Program Leader on Electronic Power Grid (eGrid) with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include modeling and control of grid-interactive converters, stability and power quality of power-electronic-based power systems, harmonic analysis and mitigation. In 2016, he was selected into Aalborg University Strategic Talent Management Program, which aims at developing next-generation research leaders for Aalborg University. He received six Prize Paper Awards in IEEE Transactions and conferences, the 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the 2018 IEEE PELS Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, and the 2019 IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Speakers:

Xiaonan Lu, Temple University

Maozhong Gong, GE Global Research Center

Deepak Divan, Georgia Tech

Xiaofan Wu, Siemens Corporate Technology

Xiongfei Wang, Aalborg University, Denmark

Marco Liserre, Kiel University, Germany

Sheng Zheng, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pedro Rodriguez, Loyola Tech, Spain