Conform to grid codes and maintain compliance from
initial design through operational performance
Design | Validate | Control | Audit
As the global power sector shifts toward sustainable energy, grid interconnection studies become crucial. Grid Interconnection requirements ensure that facilities like power plants, solar farms, and wind farms operate safely and efficiently while integrating with the public electric network. ETAP Grid Code provides a wide spectrum of studies covering all operational aspects, including normal operation, faults, dynamics, harmonics, and transient responses. This comprehensive solution ensures full compliance with grid interconnection requirements.
Solution Benefits
ETAP seamlessly integrates powerful modeling capabilities with advanced solution algorithms, streamlining the complex studies required for grid interconnection and impact analysis of wind parks, PV generation, and other renewable energy power plants.
Dedicated grid code module increases compliance productivity and efficiency
ETAP Grid Code automatically evaluates compliance at the Point of Measurement.
Built-in and customizable grid code rulebooks
Choose from various international grid code rulebooks. ETAP is continuously adding new rulebook data to cover more regions, and customers can also add and use their own custom rulebooks.
Complete reporting including tabular data and visual charts
Detailed, intuitive Excel-based tables and charts show compliance, plant assets, and grid requirements in a format that is ready to be submitted to system operators.
Comprehensive solution for all required grid code studies
Grid Code is fully integrated with ETAP to support the design, analysis, protection, optimization, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.
Model-driven power plant controller
ETAP Power Plant Controller and Unified Digital Twin ensure reliability and ease of use for engineers who need to evaluate power plant dynamic performance.
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ETAP Grid Code provides a wide range of studies required for grid interconnection and grid impact analysis of wind parks, PV generation, and other renewable energy power plants.
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Grid Compliance Challenges
Ensuring compliance with diverse and complex requirements is time-consuming and requires specialized skills.
ETAP Grid Code provides a much improved approach with build-in interconnection codes encompassing a broad range of performance criteria, including voltage and frequency ride-through, active and reactive power control and dynamic support under abnormal conditions. The requirements are applied at both Point of Measurement and common coupling of individual inverter-based resources.
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ETAP GridCode
ETAP GridCode utilizes a progressive electrical digital twin with automated analysis, predictive calculations, network optimization, validation processes, and intelligent power plant control hardware to ensure local grid code compliance.
What's New for Renewable Interconnection Studies in ETAP 2024
The webinar is an opportunity to discover how the features in this release of GridCode contribute to better and faster grid code compliance evaluation in an automated fashion, including real and reactive power capability, and harmonic distortion and resonance. By carefully evaluating the impact of new generation on the grid, you’ll learn how to define and produce compliance studies that help protect the system, enable renewable energy growth, and promote cost-effective grid development.
How to Perform Grid Interconnection Studies for Compliance Requirements with ETAP Grid Code™
As the global power sector rapidly transitions toward sustainable energy, the importance of grid code interconnection studies becomes paramount. The manual analysis of grid codes can be time-consuming, involving intricate scenarios and strict compliance. ETAP Grid Code is a model-driven solution that includes software tools and control hardware to ensure local grid codes or standards compliance throughout the power system design and operations lifecycle. Additionally, ETAP’s unique Power Plant Controller (ePPC) along with its digital twin, ensures accurate evaluation and study of the system's actual performance to improve compliance and minimize risk.
Understanding Grid Code, Grid Code Compliance Analysis & Reporting with ETAP
The variable nature of renewable energy introduces power quality concerns, including frequency and voltage control, that may negatively impact the reliable performance of a power system. Grid codes, interconnection, or evacuation criteria must be followed during the proposed system design and continue to maintain compliance under grid-connected operation. ETAP Grid Code is a model-driven solution that includes software tools and control hardware to ensure local grid codes or standards compliance throughout the power system design and operations lifecycle.
Short Circuit & Dynamic Modelling of Inverter-based Resources
Today’s power systems depend on renewable energy resources to meet their load demand and are typically interconnected through inverters. This webinar demonstrates how inverter-based resources are modeled for short circuit studies. It will also review various dynamic modeling approaches offered by ETAP and discuss merits and limitations of each approach.
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