ESIG - Webinar: Overview of Grid Forming Interconnection Requirements



Featured Speaker: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
About the Webinar: With grid forming controls being considered as one of the solutions for the reliable integration of inverter-based resources (wind, solar, storage), there is a need to define interconnection requirements (or grid codes) and performance expectations for this technology. Around the world there are a handful of entities that have begun working on grid codes for grid forming technology, including National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) in Great Britain, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), ENTSO-E and Fingrid. The U.S. DOE-funded project UNIFI has published the first version of their proposed specifications and North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) has also developed a white paper detailing grid forming capabilities and how a utility or a system operator wanting to deploy this technology should test for grid forming capabilities through simulations. ERCOT recently presented the results of a preliminary study investigating the impacts and benefits of grid forming battery storage resources in West Texas with the development of interconnection requirements for grid forming battery storage being introduced as the next step. This webinar will cover capabilities sought from grid forming inverter-based resources by the system operators and compare various existing or proposed requirements and testing specifications.