Electric Power ›› 2018, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (3): 121-130.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.201702058

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Harmonic Resonance Mechanism Study of Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants

ZHU Wu, LIU Yajuan   

  1. Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
  • Received:2017-02-05 Revised:2017-10-25 Online:2018-03-05 Published:2018-03-12
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Local Insititution Capacity Building Project (No.15110500900).

Abstract: Grid impedance that cannot be ignored between Large-Scale Photovoltaic Plants(LSPV) and the grid makes interaction among LSPV, grid and parallel inverters in LSPV. The interaction leads to system harmonic resonance. In order to study the LSPV resonance mechanism, a decoupling model that transforms multi-inverters parallel system into equivalent single inverter system is established. Then functions related to grid impedance, parallel inverters number, resonant frequency, damping ratio, stability margin are derived based on proposed decoupled model. A deep analysis on impact for system stability caused by grid impedance and the number of parallel inverters is also given. The harmonic resonance mechanism of LSPV is revealed from the point of closed-loop gain. Grid impedance will not disable active damping and resonance is caused by stability margin reduction related to grid impedance. The study is validated through simulations and experiment.

Key words: large-scale photovoltaic plants, grid impedance, decoupling model, stability analysis, harmonic resonance mechanism

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