Advanced Protections for Power Systems with High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 1253
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is focused on advanced protections for power systems with a high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs). Short-circuit contributions from IBRs are completely different from the traditional contributions from synchronous generation, and this fact can have an important negative impact on the behavior of the power transmission system protections. Furthermore, the short-circuit contributions from IBRs are dependent on the control strategy of inverters, whose means of performing the simulations are not easily available. On the other hand, power system dynamics is also negatively affected due to the low inertia feature of these systems; consequently, special protection systems and/or improved control strategies can potentially be necessary to avoid possible general black-outs. Thus, the scope of this Special Issue covers the design, analysis, and testing of protections for these systems, as well as the modeling, testing, innovations, and grid-code requirements for grid-following and grid-forming inverters during short-circuits and during major disturbances in the transmission grid. These topics have been analyzed during recent years, and this Special Issue has the explicit purpose of offering an updated perspective on them. Contributions are specially welcomed from manufacturers of protective relays or grid-connected inverters, developers of power system analysis software, experts in the dynamic and transient analysis of electric power systems from electric utilities or from engineering consulting firms, developers of grid-codes, and academic researchers.
Dr. Elmer Sorrentino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advanced power system protections
- inverter-based resources
- high penetration of renewables
- short-circuit currents from grid-connected inverters
- transmission line protections
- control of inverters
- reactive-current injection from inverters
- negative-sequence current injection from inverters
- simulation of grid-connected inverters
- short-circuit tests of grid-connected inverters
- power system dynamics
- power system transients
- low-inertia power systems
- special protection systems
- remedial action schemes
- general black-outs
- grid-code requirements
- grid-following inverters
- grid-forming inverters
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