A Benchmark and Validation Guide for the Hungarian Implementation of the Common European Requirements for Electricity Generators

Abstract

In the Hungarian electricity system, as well as in other European countries, the share of renewable based production is increasing. These power generating modules do not contain rotating masses like those of traditional synchronous power generating modules which creates new challenges on the electric grid with respect to system stability and frequency control. The distribution system operators (DSOs) of the different countries need to cope with this problem and set frequency, voltage thresholds and robustness requirements for the electricity generating power plants. This project aims to create specific requirements for the Hungarian generators considering the former implementations of other countries (UK, Germany, Denmark and Finland). The different requirements of these foreign areas are introduced in a benchmark study, which is the first essential part of the whole project. Such implementations are only partially defined for Hungary; therefore, in some cases it is necessary to use the implementations of other foreign countries which have similar grid characteristics and are dealing with the same control and operation challenges. Another important milestone of this work besides the benchmark study is to present a validation guide for the Hungarian transmission system operator (TSO) that can be sent directly to the operators of electric power generating modules with six different types. These guides contain compliance tests for the power plants to examine whether they meet the requirements of grid connection or not.