US Patent Issued to Siemens on Jan. 27 for "Control design for a photovoltaic system in grid-forming operation for power grid support" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,382, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"Control design for a photovoltaic system in grid-forming operation for power grid support" was invented by Nan Xue (Princeton, N.J.), Lizhi Ding (Narberth, Pa.) and Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grid-forming photovoltaic (PV) system and method for both islanded connection and grid-connected mode is provided. An inverter converts PV array voltage to a voltage usable as a power source to an electric power system load. Active power-frequency droop controller regulates a modulator that generates drive signals to drive the inverter. Propo...