Electrical architecture comprising a linear photovoltaic installation consisting of multiple groups of photovoltaic panels and a DC network, connected to an AC transport network and/or an AC distribution network with possible transport of power from the AC network by the DC network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12176718-B2
Application number	US-202218066562-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2022
Priority date	Dec 20, 2021
Publication date	Dec 24, 2024
Grant date	Dec 24, 2024

Abstract

An architecture with at least one PV linear installation with a DC network and in interconnecting this subassembly, at at least two distinct interconnection points, with a preferably existing AC electricity network. Each interconnection point to a node of the AC network is a voltage source converter VSC that is able to inject from 0 to 100% of the maximum power P of the PV linear installations.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical architecture, comprising:
a linear installation comprising one or more groups of photovoltaic (PV) panels configured to produce a maximum total power P, and a direct current (DC) network comprising a DC bus to which the one or more groups of PV panels are electrically connected in parallel, each by way of a DC/DC converter,
an alternating current (AC) network including an AC transport network and/or an AC distribution network,
two voltage source converters, one of the two voltage source converters connecting the DC bus to a first node of the AC network, the other of the two voltage source converters connecting the DC bus to a second node of the AC network, distinct from the first node, each of the voltage source converters being configured to inject from 0% to a value greater than 100% of the power P into the AC network, at least one of the voltage source converters being bidirectional, and
a control system configured to determine power to be transported between the DC network from the voltage source converters and the AC network, based on the requirements and/or operating regimes of the AC network.

2. The architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the DC network absorbs, at one of the first or second nodes, at least part of a power of the AC network in an event of failure thereof between the first and second nodes.

3. The architecture according to claim 2 , wherein the voltage source converters are multilevel modular converters (MMC), bidirectional converters, and/or are dimensioned so as to absorb the power of the AC network.

4. The architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage source converters are controlled in a mode of controlling injected power and a voltage at a connection point of the AC network or in a mode of controlling active and reactive power injected into the AC network or in a mode of controlling a voltage of the DC bus and reactive power, or in a mode of controlling the voltage at the connection point and a frequency of the AC network.

5. The architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the DC bus to which the one or more groups of PV panels are directly electrically connected in parallel is a medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) bus.

6. The architecture according to claim 5 , wherein the MVDC bus is connected to the AC network.

7. The architecture according to claim 6 , further comprising multiple geographically distributed loads, each connected to the MVDC bus by way of a DC/DC converter.

8. The architecture according to claim 5 , further comprising multiple geographically distributed electricity storage devices, each connected to the MVDC bus by way of a DC/DC converter.

9. The architecture according to claim 5 , further comprising geographically distributed current sources, each connected to the MVDC bus by way of a DC/DC converter.

10. The architecture according to claim 5 , wherein the DC network of the PV linear installation further comprises at least one high-voltage direct current (HVDC) bus connected to the MVDC bus and to a voltage source converter connected to a node of the AC network.

11. The architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the AC network includes the AC transport network, and the DC network of the PV linear installation further comprises a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) bus connected only to the AC transport network.

12. The architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the control system is connected to a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of the AC network.

13. The architecture according to claim 1 , further comprising a device configured to measure a voltage and/or a frequency at the first and second nodes and being connected to the control system such that the control system distributes the power to be transported between the DC network from the voltage source converters and the AC network based on the voltage and/or frequency measurements at the first and second nodes.

Assignees

• Commissariat Energie Atomique
• Commissariat A Lenergie Atomique Et Aux Energies

Inventors

• Tran Quoc-Tuan

Classifications

• H02J2101/40

  Hybrid power plants, i.e. a plurality of different generation technologies being operated at one power plant · CPC title

• H02J2101/28

  Wind energy · CPC title

• H02J2101/24

  Photovoltaics · CPC title

• H02J4/25 Primary

  for transfer of electric power between AC and DC networks, e.g. for supplying the DC section within a load from an AC mains system · CPC title

• Y02E10/56

  Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers · CPC title