Researchers Customizing Power Grid Fault Detection for Solar and Wind

If predictions come true that renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind generators are the primary suppliers of tomorrow’s power grids, then the engineers maintaining those grids will need new innovations in fault detection, made possible by researchers like NJIT Associate Professor Joshua Taylor. The problem is that traditional power grids use fault detection methods designed for what’s called synchronous generation, as with gas power plants, and those methods work poorly for inverter-based generation found in renewable systems.