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Harmonised Standards for Solar Power Plants and Wind Turbines
Leading European Research Institutes Found the Association DERlab to Strengthen the Distributed Power Generation
Currently distributed power generators such as solar power plants and wind turbines feed their electricity – unregulated for the most part – into the public grid at a low-voltage or medium-voltage level. Their increasing numbers create new challenges, in particular since currently there are neither harmonised standards nor harmonised interconnection requirements or test procedures for grid feed-in in
In the Network of Excellence DERlab, supported by the European Commission, the research institutes from eleven countries have been developing joint requirements and quality criteria for the interconnection and operation of distributed energy resources since the end of 2005. In addition, they prepare testing and certification methods as well as standards valid all over
International White Book on Grid Inverters
trustytimewatch.com Counted among the results of the Network of Excellence is, for example, the preparation of an international white book for research and standardisation needs of grid inverters. These devices are increasingly being used for the integration of distributed power generation and adapt the voltage and frequency of a solar power plant, for example, to grid conditions. To date, international standards do not exist in this area. This is what the DERlab researchers want to change. Their draft concept will be dis-cussed at an international level within the framework of the third DERlab inverter workshop in
Members of the board: Philipp Strauss (Spokesperson), Hubert Fechner, Maria-Luciana Rizzi
The European Network of Excellence DERlab
The European Network of Excellence DERlab is co-ordinated by the Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET)/
Source: Press Agency Krampitz, Press Agency for Renewable Energies