TY - JOUR A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Soltau, N. A1 - Thomas, S. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - The balance of renewable sources and user demands in grids : power electronics for modular battery energy storage systems JF - IEEE transactions on power electronics N2 - The continuously growing amount of renewable sources starts compromising the stability of electrical grids. Contradictory to fossil fuel power plants, energy production of wind and photovoltaic (PV) energy is fluctuating. Although predictions have significantly improved, an outage of multi-MW offshore wind farms poses a challenging problem. One solution could be the integration of storage systems in the grid. After a short overview, this paper focuses on two exemplary battery storage systems, including the required power electronics. The grid integration, as well as the optimal usage of volatile energy reserves, is presented for a 5- kW PV system for home application, as well as for a 100- MW medium-voltage system, intended for wind farm usage. The efficiency and cost of topologies are investigated as a key parameter for large-scale integration of renewable power at medium- and low-voltage. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2010.2085455 SN - 0885-8993 VL - 25 IS - 12 SP - 3049 EP - 3056 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Köllensperger, P. A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Plum, T. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - The dual GCT : new high-power device using optimized GCT technology JF - IEEE transactions on industry applications Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2009.2027364 SN - 0093-9994 VL - 45 IS - 5 SP - 1754 EP - 1762 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Köllensperger, P. A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Plum, T. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - The dual GCT : a new high-power device using optimized GCT technology T2 - Conference record of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference : 42. IAS annual meeting ; September 23 - 27, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-1-4244-1260-0 (Online) SN - 978-1-4244-1259-4 (Print) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/07IAS.2007.76 SP - 358 EP - 365 PB - IEEE Operations Center CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nötzold, K. A1 - Uphues, A. A1 - Wegener, R. A1 - Soter, S. A1 - Fink, K. A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Griessel, R. T1 - Inverter based test setup for LVRT verification of a full-scale 2 MW wind power converter T2 - EPE Joint Wind Energy and T&D Chapters Seminar : 28th and 29th of June 2012, in the Utzon Centre, Aalborg, Denmark ; papers, posters, presentations. - Session 2: Grid connection, compliance Y1 - 2012 PB - EPE Association CY - Brussels ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nötzold, K. A1 - Uphues, A. A1 - Wegener, R. A1 - Fink, K. A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Griessel, R. A1 - Soter, S. T1 - Inverter based test setup for LVRT verification of a full-scale 2 MW wind power converter T2 - 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), 2013 : 2 - 6 Sept. 2013, Lille, France / [EPE Association; PELS, IEEE Power Electronics Society] Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1-4799-0115-9 (Online-Ausg.) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2013.6634752 SP - 1037 EP - 1042 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER -