Safe and stable grids
SMA Grid Forming Solutions
As energy industries worldwide make the rapid transition to clean, renewable energy to power large utility grids, SMA provides pivotal Grid Forming solutions, a fundamental technology to help enable the safety, stability, and efficiency needed by grids and energy plants.
Solutions
Inertia
Energy storage plants with SMA Grid Forming Solution provide inverter-based inertia and thereby ensure that the power system is robust and secure during disturbances.
System Strength
SMA Grid Forming adds system strength and short-circuit ratios, thus enabling a resilient power system with high power quality. This enables even higher levels of renewable generation and ensures reliable transport of energy.
System restoration
Energy storage plants with SMA Grid Forming Solution can initiate a decentralized “black start” of its local grid, rapidly and safely. Market models are evolving to enable monetization for this crucial capability.
Grid Booster
Grid booster systems for large-scale energy storage plants are placed at strategic locations in the transmission grid. They add flexibility to existing transmission systems and relieve constraints while reducing the need for costly redispatch measures.
Benefits
Enables reliable cross-continental energy exchange
Reduces the need for network reinforcement and redispatch measures
Provides stable grids powered by 100% clean energy
Guaranteed security of supply
The system in detail
The SMA Grid Forming solution enables multiple applications
Battery inverters
SMA battery inverters are responsible for charging and discharging the battery at the right time, to the right level and with the highest efficiency. They are also responsible for all grid services on inverter-level used for off-grid and on-grid applications within SMA Grid Forming Solutions.
Power Plant Manager
The SMA Power Plant Manager is the integrated solution for reliable system control, monitoring and central device management. Together with SMA’s leading inverter technology and comprehensive Engineering Services, it ensures precise performance over the plant’s lifetime. Additionally, it provides flexible interfaces for grid integration and energy market participation.
Battery inverters
SMA battery inverters are responsible for charging and discharging the battery at the right time, to the right level and with the highest efficiency. They are also responsible for all grid services on inverter-level used for off-grid and on-grid applications within SMA Grid Forming Solutions.
Batteries
Our Engineering Service team offers design support to help you find the right battery capacity and power for your needs.
Power Plant Manager
The SMA Power Plant Manager is the integrated solution for reliable system control, monitoring and central device management. Together with SMA’s leading inverter technology and comprehensive Engineering Services, it ensures precise performance over the plant’s lifetime. Additionally, it provides flexible interfaces for grid integration and energy market participation.
SMA Monitoring
Enables easy and efficient online monitoring of your SMA Large Scale Energy Solution.
Grid Forming Cases
West Murray, Australia
SMA solution secures energy yields
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has finally lifted the generation caps imposed on five PV farms with a total output of more than 350 MWp in West Murray, a region that stretches across Victoria and New South Wales. And this is all thanks to an innovative control software from SMA.
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A city with balanced energy – on and off grid
With a large-scale battery storage system, the public utility company Versorgungsbetriebe Bordesholm in northern Germany is able to supply the European utility grid with balancing energy – a lucrative business model.
The battery storage system is considered one of the most state-of-the-art balancing energy power plants in the world.
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St. Eustatius, Caribbean
Large-Scale Island Electrification
Today, solar energy covers 46% of St. Eustatius’ total electricity need. Grid Forming inverters allow to operate the island grid for 10.5 hours in Diesel Off-Mode operation with 100% Solar Power Fraction. In total a 5.9MWh Li-Ion storage facility has been integrated for energy shifting and grid services. Thanks to the SMA Fuel Solution about 4,560 tons CO2 per year can be saved.
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