The future is a fascinating subject. When it comes to digital technology, however, the crystal balls and Ouija boards are having a hard time keeping up with the latest developments. When it comes to ...

General Electric (GE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrated grid-forming technologies in the Type-3 wind turbine, a step in long-term grid modernization efforts as the rapid ...

Mzansi Energy Consortium is leading South Africa’s clean energy transition by making grid-forming technology central to its ...

Grid-forming inverters “are going to be needed once we get to very high levels of inverter-based resources,” said Ben Kroposki, organizational director of the UNIFI Consortium and director of the ...

A detailed comparison of the response times and overload capabilities of synchronous generators (SGs), grid-forming converters (GFMs), and grid-following converters (GFLs) across different timescales.

The Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative in Hawaii, which deployed storage before grid-forming inverters became available, became a test case for diagnosing grid issues that can arise with older ...

How grid-forming inverters can help utilities incorporate much larger percentages of renewable energy into their energy portfolios. How recent efforts at standardization and interoperability will ...

The proposed GFM PVSG concept can transform today's GFL PV plants into GFM PV plants, thereby offering a cost-effective approach forward. Figure 1. Grid forming PVSG: Parallel a GFM storage system ...

Over the past decades power grids have undergone a transformation towards smaller and more intermittent generators – primarily in the form of wind and solar generators – as well as smaller ...

Tucked away behind a cash-and-carry in a Liverpool suburb is a 40-tonne cylinder of steel spinning 1,500 times a minute. Its 500 megajoules of kinetic energy are the equivalent of the chemical energy ...