SHORT COURSE OUTLINE - Monash

GRID INTEGRATION AND GPS STUDIES OF RENEWABLES IN PSCAD

15TH – 19TH FEBRUARY, 2021

SHORT COURSE OUTLINE

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https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/2021/grid-integration-and-gps-studies-of-renewables-using-pscad-pde1001?domestic=true

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE

COURSE DETAILS

COURSE DATE & DURATION

15th – 19th February, 2021.Duration is 5 days inclusive.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit the registration page here.

COURSE LOCATION

Monash University, Clayton Campus and Online.


COURSEPRESENTERS

SENIOR LECTURER, MONASH UNIVERSITY

DR BEHROOZ BAHRANI

ABOUT BEHROOZ..

Dr Behrooz Bahrani received his Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in electrical engineering in 2012. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at Monash University, where he is also the director of the Grid Innovation Hub. Moreover, he is currently a visiting academic at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Prior to joining Monash University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at several international universities including EPFL, Georgia Tech (USA), Purdue University (USA), and the Technical University of Munich (Germany). His research interests include control of power electronics systems, applications of power electronics in power systems, and grid integration of renewable energy resources. For his efforts in teaching at Monash University, he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean’s Award for Technological Innovation in Learning and Teaching in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

GLOBAL TECHNICAL HEAD, VYSUS GROUP

DR TONY MORTON

ABOUT TONY..

Dr Tony Morton gained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2000 and has over 20 years’ experience in the modelling and analysis of power systems in industry and academia. His areas of expertise include power system modelling, plant dynamic model and simulation software, power quality assessment and mitigation, embedded generation, demand management, power electronics and renewable energy. Dr Morton is an Expert Assessor for the Australian Research Council, Associate Editor of the journal Control Engineering Practice, reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. At Vysus Group Dr Morton coordinates technical capability in Power Engineering and leads delivery of technical assistance across all aspects of electrical plant and grid connection design and performance. Vysus clients include a majority of the top 10 global wind, solar and storage equipment manufacturers, and leading generators in Australia and worldwide.

INDUSTRYSPEAKERS

ENERGY SERVICES ASSOCIATE, AURECON

JOSIAS VISAGIE

ABOUT JOSIAS..

Josias is an Associate within the Energy service group at Aurecon. He holds BEng Electrical and BEng (Hons) Environmental degrees from the University of Pretoria. Josias has extensive experience with the complex generator application and connection processes in Australia, having been involved in adding more than 2.5GW to the National Energy Market for a number of participants. He assesses generator applications and performs Generator Performance Standard due diligence studies on behalf of AusNet, Ergon/EQ and TransGrid, as well as lenders due diligence for various clients. His work focuses on renewable generation integration and associated generator compliance studies, with specializations in transmission and distribution network studies (load flow, fault level and protection coordination) and examination of power quality (analysis, power factor correction and harmonic filter design).

POWER SYSTEMS ENGINEER, FIMER

DR MAJID FARD

ABOUT MAJID..

Dr Majid Fard is currently working for FIMER as the Power Systems Engineer and manages grid connection and compliance of FIMER Battery Energy Storage Systems and solar farms across Australia and New Zealand.

Majid received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in Electrical Engineering in 2017. His area of expertise includes power system modelling, grid-connected inverters modelling, plant connection impact assessment, solar and battery energy storage systems dynamic modelling, and simulation.

During the last 10 years of his career, his work has focused on solar and battery energy storage. Majid has a track record of working for large OEMs such as ABB and Siemens.

PRINCIPAL POWER SYSTEMS SCIENTIST, HITACHI ABB

DR SASAN ZABIHI

ABOUT SASAN..

Dr Sasan Zabihi received his Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics control and applications from QUT, in 2011. He then served as a lecturer with QUT from 2011 to 2012.

Prior joining QUT at 2008, he was a senior development engineer with multiple energy research institutes, focusing on control and topology design for power conversion and custom power devices.

Since 2013, he has been an R&D specialist with ABB Australia (now HITACHI ABB Power Grids), in their global CoC for Microgrid, and distributed generation, developing power convertors, and control for Microgrids, Energy Storage and Renewable applications, and facilitating their integration into Power Systems. His focus lately has been in addressing challenges ahead of our future Grids with raising penetration of renewables. Dr Zabihi is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University.

GRID TEAM TECHNICAL SPECIALIST, VESTAS

JANAKI SIVASANKARA

ABOUT JANAKI..

Janakiraman (Janaki) Sivasankaran is a technical specialist with Vestas ASP Grid team. He has been involved in grid integration for numerous projects in various stages of the connection process in Australia and rest of Asia.

Janakiraman has also undertaken grid integration assessment in RMS & EMT platforms for projects totalling 10GW covering all major grid codes across the globe.

Janaki holds a Master’s degree in Power engineering and has previously lead teams in designing electrical infrastructure for both onshore and offshore facilities.

RENEWABLE CONNECTIONS ENGINEER, POWERLINK

KEVIN PAICE

ABOUT KEVIN..

Kevin is a senior renewable connections planning engineer working for Powerlink Queensland.He started working for Powerlink in 2004. After completing graduate engineer positions, he worked within protection systems design. He then worked in network planning: assessing the main transmission grid technical performance under various development and operational scenarios.Since 2016 he has been involved in the connection studies and assessment of a wide range of renewable generators: ranging from 20 MW to 800 MW wind, solar, and battery systems. He has negotiated many generator performance standards, with the associated assessment of model adequacy and modelled plant performance. He has assessed multiple inverter based plants in their generator compliance testing / commissioning process.

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, AEMO

GRATIAN PUNCHIWEDIKKARAGE

ABOUT GRATIAN..

Gratian Punchiwedikkarage is a Principal Engineer from Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

Gratian has been involved in a large number of generator connection projects within the National Electricity Market (NEM) from enquiry stage to commercial operation. His areas of expertise include Generator Performance Standards (GPS), Registration of generators, Commissioning of generators, Generator connection arrangements, system strength impact assessments, regulatory issues, Power system operations and constraints, Project management, and Mentoring and training.

PRODUCT MANAGER, ABB

CSABA SZABÓ

ABOUT CSABA..

Csaba Szabó graduated in the Kálmán Kandó University, Hungary, at the faculty of Electrical Engineering in Hungary, majoring in Electrical Machine Design and Production Technologies. Csaba also holds a postgraduate degree in Economics, majoring in Industrial Planning and Organization.

He has been with ABB Australia for more than 30 years and has held positions of laboratory engineer, project manager, technical-sales and is currently Product Manager / Specialist of MV and HV motors and generators. He is past member of Hazardous Area Equipment (EL - 014) and current member of Rotating Machines (EL - 009) standard committees in Australia.

DAY TO DAY

BREAKDOWN

OVERVIEW

DAY 1

OUTLINE OF THE DAY

Day 1 shall be split approximately evenly between “lecture-style” theory sessions and then practical application sessions. The theory sessions shall be in the first half of the day and the practical sessions in the latter half.

The content on Day 1 begins from the fundamentals of the voltage source converter (VSC) and introduces in detail all of the components required for the grid connected control of the VSC. Application sessions shall build on theoretical concepts introduced in the lectures. See below for an overview of what the sessions shall contain.

SESSIONAL BREAKDOWN

DAY 1

DAY 1 THEORY SESSIONS

• Theory on voltage source converter (VSC) fundamentals

• Additional theory on VSCs, building on the fundamentals from and progressing through to grid-connected control techniques.

DAY 1 PSCAD PRACTICAL APPLICATION SESSIONS

• Building and investigating fundamental components of a VSC in PSCAD

• Investigating the inside of a PLL to motivate the DQ currents control

• Modelling and controlling a grid-connected VSC using both DQ currents control and active and reactive power (PQ) control techniques

OVERVIEW

DAY 2

OUTLINE OF THE DAY

Similar to Day 1, the second day shall be also be split approximately evenly between “lecture-style” theory sessions and then practical PSCAD application sessions. The theory sessions shall be in the first half of the day and the practical sessions in the latter half.

The content on Day 2 builds on concepts presented in Day 1, to include lecture sessions explaining further applications of VSCs and additional grid-following (GFL) control techniques. It will then progress on to presenting grid-forming (GFM) inverters and associated control techniques.

The application sessions will feature various types of VSC topologies with a range of PSCAD exercises on both GFL and GFM models.

SESSIONAL BREAKDOWN

DAY 2


• Additional theory on VSC applications, and various external control loop implementations

• Theory on the control techniques of grid-forming (GFM) inverters including droop control and virtual synchronous generator control.


• Building further external control loops in PSCAD, incl. DC Link voltage control, terminal voltage control, reactive power control

• Building a STATCOM model in PSCAD and investigating its functionality

• Modeling and investigating motivations for a Type 4 (dual inverter) topology

• GFM inverter control techniques will also be presented

OVERVIEW

DAY 3

OVERVIEW OF DAY 3 FOCUS

Day 3 introduces Tony Morton from Vysus group who is also an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, where the course direction is turned towards Generator Performance Standards (GPS) aspects. After some context and an introduction to GPS studies, the day shall progress towards sequentially introducing clauses within the National Electricity Rules (NER) as highlighted within the PSCAD Study section of the AEMO connection application checklist.

There will be four NER clauses introduced and investigated in Day 3, where for each clause it will be introduced in a lecture style session and then investigated in a practical session, with a cumulative wrap-up at the end of the day.

SESSIONAL BREAKDOWN

DAY 3


• Introduction and context for GPS studies and the NER

• Sequentially introducing the following clauses concerning GPS studies found within Schedule 5.2 of the NER:

• S5.2.5.13 - Voltage and reactive power control

• S5.2.5.14 - Active power control

• S5.2.5.3 - Generating system response to frequency disturbances

• S5.2.5.4 - Generating system response to voltage disturbances


• The practical sessions will involve using setting up the GPS tests within PSCAD case files and then monitoring the results from the perspective of the respective clauses as above.

OVERVIEW

DAY 4


Day 4 continues with Tony Morton from Vysus group, where the day shall follow along with the remaining four clauses found within the PSCAD study section of the AEMO Connection Application Checklist.

Day four will adopt the same process of introducing a clause in a lecture style session and then directly investigating that clauses in an application session.

It is also noted that the investigations for clause S5.2.5.12 is more of an exploratory open-ended case study.

SESSIONAL BREAKDOWN

DAY 4


• Recap of the previous day

• Sequentially introducing the following clauses concerning GPS studies found within Schedule 5.2 of the NER:

• S5.2.5.5 - Generating system response to disturbances following contingency events

• S5.2.5.8 - Protection of generating systems

• S5.2.5.11 - Frequency control

• S5.2.5.12 - Impact on network capability


• Similar to Day 3, the practical sessions will involve using setting up the GPS tests within PSCAD case files and then monitoring the results from the perspective of the respective clauses as above.

OVERVIEW

DAY 5


The final day, Day 5, will move away from the lecture/application session mix and shall introduce our various invited industry speakers.

The first part of the day shall feature presentations from each of our industry speakers who will each present on a different topic related to the grid integration of renewables. The day will then lead into a panel discussion providing the opportunity for all speakers to discuss and answer questions from participants.

The final afternoon session will focus on Synchronous Condensers (SynCons) which will feature a PSCAD case study related to Csaba Szabó’s presentation. The case study will feature an investigation of a SynCon connected to a weak grid in conjunction with a GFM inverter and solar farm.

SESSIONAL BREAKDOWN

DAY 5

DAY 5 PRESENTATIONS

• Each of our industry speakers will present on a different topic related to the grid integration of renewables, any questions will wait until the panel discussion that follows all speakers.

• The speakers form a panel discussion with the attendees for an interactive Q&A style session.


• SynCon case study in PSCAD following from the industry presentation on SynCons.

POINTS OF CONTACT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

ANY FUTHER ENQUIRIES

If you have any further questions please contact Dr Behrooz Bahrani at [email protected].

Please note that we also have a list of FAQs on the registration website that may already answer any questions you might have, which again can be found here.

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