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As cited in the DOE OE ES Program Plan, “Industry requires specifications of standards for characterizing the performance of energy storage under grid conditions and for modeling behavior. Discussions with industry pro-fessionals indicate a significant need for standards” [1, p. 30].
In compliance with standards developed by Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), Distributed Energy Resource (DER) inverters are designed, manufactured and tested to provide reliable and safe functionalities.
In either case, an inverter may be coupled with an energy storage device, such as a battery, and retain power generated for later use, thus mitigating intermittency of the generating device and improving response to power demands.
The IEEE 1547 standard was amended in 2014 to allow for the possibility of utility interactive inverters to provide grid voltage support through active or reactive power output adjustment and frequency support by active power adjustments. Ride-through of brief voltage and frequency excursions away from nominal values for the grid were added.
Workforce and public safety is augmented through fault detection, the ability to disconnect from the point of common coupling (PCC) and the implementation of unintentional islanding protection. Advanced inverters have the capacity to supply or absorb reactive power, and to control and modulate frequency and voltage.
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