Investigation of Different Fault Ride Through Strategies for Renewable Energy Sources

The Fault Ride Through (FRT) capability of renewable energy sources (RES) for providing support to the power grid under several disturbances allows us to consider them not only as passive elements in the power system network, but also as ancillary services for the mitigation of evolving contingencies. In this paper, an investigation of the FRT operation of RES according to current grid regulations highlights some impacts on the system response that were not considered previously and require to be addressed. Slight modifications of the current grid codes are therefore necessary to solve these problems. A critical dead band zone modification for smother fault recovery is suggested. Moreover, this paper proposes the use of an adjustable parameter into the FRT strategy for a fair compromise of voltage and frequency support. The proposed FRT strategies are applied to a RES that is interconnected with the IEEE 14-bus test system and dynamic electromagnetic transient simulation results are provided.