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Webinar: GFM Solutions for Compliance on Plant Levels
May 22 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Featured Speaker: Benjamin Braun, Principal Engineer, Fluence Energy
Ben Braun
About the Webinar: Recent updates to the grid codes of key markets enabling grid-forming operation on the public network have opened a multitude of new applications. This in turn has exposed a gap between components level controls and complete code compliant solutions. Historically, GFM applications have been largely limited to industrial black-start and isolated electrical systems. Such projects have provided countless lessons and improvements, but to date no component level standards defining GFM controls have been defined. Validation and bench-marking of manufacturer’s and integrator’s GFM capabilities is thus left open for interpretation. For plant level grid code compliance a holistic approach considering DC limitations and dynamics as well as the grid needs at POI rather than only the converter level performance must be considered. This presentation will highlight additional requirements and considerations to provide a complete GFM plant solution with the required plant level integration controls to convert collections of sub-components into plant level solutions compliant with the latest grid codes.
About the Speaker:
Ben Braun is the Principal Engineer for TSO/Ultrastack applications at Fluence where he leads the qualification process of convertor supplier’s grid-forming (GFM) controls and F.OS software integration thereof. Fluence has 2GVA of GFM projects commissioned or under construction. Over the last 10 years he has designed in-house GFM controls applications, detailed multiple integration studies for grid operators, developed and deployed Europe’s first BESS to black-start a 110kV distribution grid in Germany, and led engineering teams to deploy GFM solutions to remote grids all over the globe. He received his BSc from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in the US and his MSc from BTU-Cottbus in Germany.
Moderator: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
