Grid voltage record & analysis

Here is a small bit of open science:

  • true record of three-phase grid voltage at CentraleSupélec (Rennes campus)
  • Python code to analyze the harmonic content (by least squares fitting, not FFT)

Published open source & open data: https://github.com/pierre-haessig/grid-voltage

Open question: how specific to Rennes campus is the grid voltage shape?

Three-phase grid voltage record (output of 15Vrms transformer) at CentraleSupélec, Rennes campus
Three-phase grid voltage record (output of a 15Vrms transformer) at CentraleSupélec, Rennes campus
Grid voltage harmonics analysis
Grid voltage harmonics analysis

More grid voltage records data (by RTE)

That being said, after a tiny data survey, I found that RTE made available last year a dataset of 12053 records of grid records (specifically grid fault events), i.e. a much richer database! https://github.com/rte-france/digital-fault-recording-database

Context: grid connected inverter

This was created in the context of another investigation: the harmonic current perturbation in a grid connected inverter. And in the end: the harmonic current looks indeed proportional to the harmonic voltage, so the grid imperfection (albeit perfectly within compliance standards) is the likely cause (along with the simplistic inverter control which make no effort to reject harmonics)...

Oscilloscope record of harmonic current perturbation in a grid connected inverter
Oscilloscope record of harmonic current perturbation in a grid connected inverter (grid following current control, with current set point equal to 0.0 A)

Author: pierre

assistant professor in Electrical Engineering & Control

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