Implementing Admittance Relaying for Microgrid Protection

The rapid increase of distributed energy resources has led to the widespread deployment of microgrids. These flexible and efficient local energy grids are able to operate in both grid-connected mode and islanded mode; they are interfaced to the main power system by a fast semiconductor switch and commonly make use of inverter-interfaced generation. This paper focuses on inverter interfaced microgrids, which present a challenge for protection as they do not provide the high shortcircuit current necessary for conventional time-overcurrent protection. The application of admittance relaying for the protection of inverter-interfaced microgrids is investigated as a potential solution. The comparison of analytical and simulated results of performed four experiments prove the suitability of admittance relaying for microgrids protection.

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