Mohammad Zadeh, a senior principal electrical engineer at ETAP in Irvine, California, will be presenting during the session, "Modeling of Converter-Interfaced Renewable Sources for Short Circuit Studies from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on April 22 at IEEE PES T&D.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the area of power system protection and control, including six years of academic career and 11 years of industrial experience. He is an IEEE Senior member and registered professional engineer in the state of California. Mohammad has authored about 70 technical papers and holds 11 US patents (8 granted) and 3 pending.
Here is a description of his session:
With the sharp increase in renewable generation connecting to the power grid, short circuit models of such generation used in commercial fault and protection analysis simulation programs have come under scrutiny and need to be updated. The challenges hindering this effort are the unavailability of control data for the converters that interconnect such generation with the grid, lack of grid codes (with a few exceptions) and performance requirements for fault response of these devices.
Working Group C24 in the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC) has been working to get consensus about the data that the wind turbine and PV system manufacturers can provide, without revealing proprietary details, that can be used to develop accurate short circuit models by developers of short circuit analysis tools. The presenters in this panel session will discuss the need and development of such models. Validated generic models developed by EPRI and models incorporated in commercial short circuit programs will be showcased.
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