The paper addresses the shortcomings of distribution protection systems as distribution level photovoltaic installations as well as other inverter based distributed resources are added to the system. Several protection schemes have been evaluated, including distance-based, estimation-based and learning-based. The paper summarizes the results and provides recommendations.
Published: September 24, 2021
Citation
McDermott T.E., S. Meliopoulos, M. Ramesh, G. Cokkinedes, J.D. Doty, J.T. Kolln, and N. Shepard, et al. 2021.Protection of Radial Circuits with High Penetration Distributed Photovoltaics. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference, April 28-April 30, 2021, Virtual. Atlanta, Georgia:Georgia Institute of Technology.PNNL-SA-161988.