Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PVCI (Photovoltaic Control and Integration)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2017-11-01 al 2019-10-31
The PVCI project aims to investigate these technical challenges and come up with control methods to transform the PV parks into more “grid-friendly” power stations that will allow much higher deployment levels into the power system. More specifically, a major objective of the project is to develop smart control strategies for the solar park towards provision of “ancillary services” to the network, i.e. to be able to support the electric grid during faults and other disturbances. Another main goal is to develop the proper modelling framework to study complicated “dynamic phenomena” related to the operation of PV systems, so as to assess how much solar we can deploy.
The results of this project serve as a useful tool and guide to increase the amount of solar integrated into our power system, contributing to our sustainable targets and the leader position EU holds in the PV industry.
The second main scientific objective is to come up with the framework to assess how solar PV systems behave at dynamic phenomena, i.e. fast changes in the electric grid. Complete dynamic models were developed to perform power system studies of these dynamics, and therefore allow impact assessment of significant levels of solar integration into the electrical network. These results were disseminated via 3 publications in top journals of the field.
This project has investigated and suggested methods that will allow to deploy more solar into our power system, the relevant findings being relevant and useful to the scientific community and the PV industry.