A Harmonic Mitigation Technique for Multi-Parallel Grid-Connected Inverters in Distribution Networks

Abstract

Different harmonic mitigation techniques have been utilized in grid-connected inverters to suppress the effect of grid voltage distortion on the output current of these inverters. In practice, to scale up the injected current into the grid, a set of parallel grid-connected inverters are often utilized rather than a single high-power inverter in solar Photovoltaic or motor drive systems. Conventional Point of Common Coupling (PCC) feedforward approaches have been used for harmonic rejection of multi-parallel grid-connected inverters. However, these methods need to implement a separate feedforward scheme for each individual inverter. In this paper, a novel full PCC voltage feedforward strategy is proposed to reduce the cost investment, which is implemented only in one of the grid-connected inverters. The proposed strategy is based on cancelling the total parallel admittance of the system by adding a virtual negative admittance to the target inverter. It is shown that the proposed scheme causes no instability issue on the system since it does not affect the system phase margin. To verify the efficiency of the proposed strategy against emitted harmonics from the grid, simulations and experiments on a system with two parallel single-phase grid-tied inverters are performed.