A flexible low-voltage ride-through operation for the distributed generation converters

Abstract

With more and more distributed energy resources (DERs) are installed in the utility grid, the utility requires the DER generation system to remain grid-connected and injects reactive and active power to support grid voltage during voltage sags. In this paper, a positive- and negative-sequence current injection method is proposed to meet the low-voltage ride through (LVRT) requirement. The proposed method predefined a current constraint to avoid the overcurrent during the LVRT operation and adjust the positive-sequence reactive current to reduce the DC-bus voltage ripple. Comparisons of the proposed method and other LVRT techniques are also presented.