Person:
Marroyo Palomo, Luis

Profile Picture

Email Address

person.page.identifierURI

https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/49511

Birth Date

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Job Title

Last Name

Marroyo Palomo

First Name

Luis

person.page.departamento

Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación

person.page.instituteName

ISC. Institute of Smart Cities

ORCID

0000-0002-8344-8374

person.page.upna

495

Name

Filters

2022 - 20232
Reset filters

Settings

Author: Parra Laita, Íñigo de la × Subject: Inverter limitation ×

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationOpen Access
    Control method to coordinate inverters and batteries for power ramp-rate control in large PV plants: minimizing energy losses and battery charging stress
    (Elsevier, 2023) González Moreno, Alejandro; Marcos Álvarez, Javier; Parra Laita, Íñigo de la; Marroyo Palomo, Luis; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    This work presents a novel control method for multi-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) plants that is able to regulate each plant inverter and the battery system to mitigate PV power fluctuations. The proposed control method makes it possible to implement different PV ramp-rate control strategies based on the use of batteries and the limitation of inverters during positive fluctuations, which have been conceptually proposed in the specialized bibliography, but have omitted how to perform the coordination between PV generators. The dynamic model and the tuning of the control parameters are presented and the method is used to correctly implement different inverter-limitation strategies using 5-second data from a real 45 MWp PV plant. Furthermore, a new control strategy is proposed. This strategy reduces curtailment losses to negligible values and takes into account and addresses the intrinsic asymmetry in the battery charging and discharging capability, an issue that has been overlooked in the specialized bibliography. The results show that the proposed control method can effectively control each of the multiple inverters in order to obtain the desired PV plant operation to regulate the battery charging power, even during highly fluctuating scenarios.
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationOpen Access
    Inverter-based PV ramp-rate limitation strategies: minimizing energy losses
    (IEEE, 2022) González Moreno, Alejandro; Marcos Álvarez, Javier; Parra Laita, Íñigo de la; Marroyo Palomo, Luis; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    This work analyzes the reduction of power generation in strategies that regulate the PV ramp-rate by using inverter limitation. Although the operating principle implies some energy production losses, not all these losses are necessary. Three different strategies were simulated using experimental 5-second data collected throughout a year at a 38.6 MW PV plant, and their energy losses were obtained for different ramprate levels. An improvement in one of these strategies is proposed and evaluated. The main findings suggest that the proposed modification has the potential to drastically reduce annual production losses to insignificant levels. Regardless of the ramp-rate constrain, simulation results evidenced energy losses bellow 1%.