Abstract
Conference Title: 2018 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) Conference Start Date: 2018, March 4 Conference End Date: 2018, March 8 Conference Location: San Antonio, TX, USA With the demand increase for electricity, the ever-increasing awareness of environmental issues, coupled with rolling blackouts, the role of renewable energy generation will become even more significant. Instead of the traditional high-power energy storage and management system at the utility scale to implement PV firming, this paper proposes a new PV (panel-level) firming control algorithm using grid-tied three-port bidirectional converter. The topology with the control algorithm and PV intermittency data collected in real time are discussed and analyzed in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The preliminary experimental results verify the proposed PV firming algorithm.