Comparative Analysis of Power Ramp Rate Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Systems

Hein Wai Yan; Gaowen Liang; Ezequiel Rodriguez; Neha Beniwal; Glen G. Farivar; Josep Pou

doi:10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312122

Comparative Analysis of Power Ramp Rate Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Systems

Hein Wai Yan^*, Gaowen Liang, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Neha Beniwal, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou

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Abstract

Intermittent changes in irradiance caused by passing clouds inevitably lead to fluctuations in photovoltaic (PV) power generation. To ensure the stability of a power grid with integrated solar PV generation, a battery energy storage system (BESS) is an intrinsic solution to effectively process the PV power before transmitting it into the grid. Alternatively, a PV software-based ramp rate (RR) control can be applied to mitigate the PV power fluctuations without any BESS, which is known to be cost-effective. The contribution of this paper is to compare various BESS-based and cost-effective software-based RR control strategies operating with real-time measured information, and analyze their effectiveness in regulating the PV power fluctuations. Furthermore, this paper studies the BESS utilization behavior among hardware-based control strategies, and also provides insights into which strategy is more appropriate for specific applications. The investigations are carried out through simulation case studies with a real-field one-day fluctuated irradiance profile.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IECON 2023 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350331820
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312122
Publication status	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2023 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Oct 16 2023 → Oct 19 2023

Publication series

Name	IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
ISSN (Print)	2162-4704
ISSN (Electronic)	2577-1647

Conference

Conference	49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2023
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	10/16/23 → 10/19/23

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Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Battery energy storage system (BESS)
photovoltaic (PV) system
power ramp rate control (PRRC)
PV power smoothing

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Yan, H. W., Liang, G., Rodriguez, E., Beniwal, N., Farivar, G. G., & Pou, J. (2023). Comparative Analysis of Power Ramp Rate Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Systems. In IECON 2023 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312122

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Yan, HW, Liang, G, Rodriguez, E, Beniwal, N, Farivar, GG & Pou, J 2023, Comparative Analysis of Power Ramp Rate Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Systems. in IECON 2023 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference), IEEE Computer Society, 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2023, Singapore, Singapore, 10/16/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312122

Comparative Analysis of Power Ramp Rate Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Systems. / Yan, Hein Wai; Liang, Gaowen; Rodriguez, Ezequiel et al.
IECON 2023 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. IEEE Computer Society, 2023. (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)).

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