Invention Publication
- Patent Title: HIERARCHICAL CONTROL OF UTILITY-SCALE, INVERTER-BASED GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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Application No.: US18551422Application Date: 2022-03-30
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Publication No.: US20240178673A1Publication Date: 2024-05-30
- Inventor: Bri-Mathias HODGE , Simon JULIEN , Amirhossein SAJADI
- Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE , ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CO Denver
- Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE,ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC
- Current Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE,ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Denver
- International Application: PCT/US2022/022597 2022.03.30
- Date entered country: 2023-09-20
- Main IPC: H02J3/46
- IPC: H02J3/46 ; H02J3/12 ; H02J3/38

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to systems, methods, and apparatus for hierarchical control of utility-scale, inverter-based generation for mitigation of generation variability and responsive provisions of ancillary services. Such systems may include one or more processors, computer-readable media, and executable instructions which, if executed at the processors, configure the system to determine, at a first control layer, an inverter maximum power potential for a set of inverters, to determine, at the second control layer, an initial combined power output associated with the set of inverters and to determine a power support level and to transmit, from the second control layer to a third control layer, an indication of the power support level. The executable instructions may also configure the system to determine a first net power request, and to transmit, from the third control layer to the second control layer, an indication of the first net power request.
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