Accelerating Integration of Renewables: Addressing Sources of Instability

Join us in person to tackle renewable energy challenges and boost grid stability together!

More large-scale inverter-based resources (IBRs) are integrated into the electricity grid each year. Growth in large-scale IBR installation brings significant and complex electricity grid integration and operational challenges. One critical issue is power oscillations introduced by IBRs, which could lead to network instability. Therefore, identifying the root cause of the oscillation is the key to eliminating these unstable oscillations. The research team at the University Queensland (UQ) is collaborating with Iberdrola Australia, TransGrid, Energy Queensland, CSIRO and international collaborators (University of Manchester – UK, University of Tennessee at Knoxville – USA, and IIT Delhi - India) on the International Clean Innovation Researcher Networks grant to develop the cost-effective solutions for the oscillation source identification based on field data and theoretical modelling. This workshop will present progress in this work from us at UQ along with presentations from other organisations to understand the source of oscillations arising from IBRs and their mitigation techniques.