IEEE Std P2800 Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting with Transmission Electric Power Systems
Electric grids around the world are seeing increasing amounts of inverter-based generation resources such as wind and solar photovoltaic power plants and, more recently, battery energy storage systems. These resources are being connected to both the distribution system and the transmission system. IEEE Std 1547, first released in 2003 and revised extensively in 2018, defined the interconnection and interoperability requirements for distributed energy resources connected to typical primary and secondary distribution systems. But even though the growth in total installed capacity of utility-scale inverter-based power plants connected to the transmission grid has surpassed the capacity of inverters connected to the distribution system, there are no IEEE standards for transmission-connected plants. IEEE formed the P2800 working group in early 2019 to rectify this shortcoming and to formulate an interconnection and interoperability standard for transmission connected inverter-based resources. This work is on-going with target publication of the standard in 2021. This presentation will give an overview of why the P2800 standard is required, present status and timeline and highlights of the contents of the proposed standard. The presentation will also include a brief discussion of the related testing standard, P2800.1. The speaker is a member of the P2800 working group.
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Siddharth Pant: 412-535-1365
- Co-sponsored by CH02085 Pittsburgh Section Jt Chapter PE31/IA34
- Starts 22 March 2020 01:00 PM UTC
- Ends 22 April 2020 11:00 PM UTC
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Siddharth Pant
IEEE Std P2800 Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting with Transmission Electric Power Systems
Biography:
Siddharth Pant is currently North American Solar Engineering Leader at GE Power Conversion in Cranberry Township. With a BSME from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, an MSME (Systems Engineering) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MSEE from Johns Hopkins University, Siddharth has over 35 years’ experience in the design and application of high power solid state power converters.
Siddharth started his career in 1982 in the team developing large LCI drives in the Development Department of the Power Electronics and Drive Systems division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Buffalo. He moved to Pittsburgh with Westinghouse in 1987 and continued with the design and development of ac and dc drives.
Starting in 1989, the drives business of Westinghouse went through a series of acquisitions by AEG, Cegelec, Alstom and Converteam, and was finally acquired by GE in 2011. During this period, Siddharth worked in different technical and managerial roles, all related to power conversion and drive/inverter design and applications. For the past ten years, Siddharth has been involved in the design, development and deployment of large multi-megawatt central inverters for utility scale solar photovoltaic power plants.
Siddharth has been a member of IEEE for 33 years and is currently the chair of the PELS chapter of IEEE Pittsburgh Section.