Methods, systems, computer program products, and devices for renewable energy site power limit control

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9270164
APP PUB NO 20140376289A1
SERIAL NO

13921788

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The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and devices for renewable energy site power limit control that address conditions of plant saturation and loop delay. In an exemplary embodiment, power limit control of the present invention is broken into two levels of control: a site-wide real power limit control that produces a single site-wide command, SitePlimCom, for all inverters, and inverter-level power limit control that outputs a command, Inv[x].PlimCom[k], for individual inverters. In some embodiments, the invention has one or more of the following features: an integrator with nonlinear gains, limit based anti-windup, a power limit control term based on the sum of both integrator and feed-forward terms, and an inverter-level controller designed to meet slew rate and site power overshoot constraints. The invention can be used at any renewable energy site employing inverters wherein improved dynamic control performance is needed, including solar, wind, and tidal energy sites.

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TMEIC CORPORATION AMERICAS1325 ELECTRIC ROAD ROANOKE VA 24018

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Bixel, Paul S Salem, US 17 238
Rudolph, Benjamin D Roanoke, US 2 17

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