IEEE Electrification - March 2022 - 5

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Lingling Fan
University of South Florida
Florida, USA
fll@ieee.org
Resurgence of
Grid-Forming
Inverter Technology
By Xiongfei Wang
T
HE EMERGENCE OF GRID-FORMING INVERTERS DATES
to the early 2000s, following the advent of inverterbased
microgrids and distributed energy resources. The
" grid-forming " concept was introduced, mainly as a control paradigm
for inverter-based resources, to assure the stability of
microgrids. Since then, a wide variety of control strategies have
been developed for grid-forming inverters, yet their applications
are primarily in microgrids or small islands. In recent years, with
the rapid growth of inverter-based resources in bulk power systems,
there has been a resurgence of interest in grid-forming
inverters from power system operators. However, a wide-scale
adoption of grid-forming technology is still not ready since it
requires updates to codes, standards, and guidelines, along with
further developments of models and tools for system planning
and operations. This issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine delivers
five feature articles and two columns that share the prospects and
challenges of grid-forming inverter technology. In addition, an
article about e-bikes is included.
In the " Technology Leaders " column, we present " GridForming
Technologies Enabling a Decarbonized Power System, "
by Guohui Yuan. The author conveys the necessity of gridforming
technology by describing the ongoing transformations
of electric power systems and then presents the grid-forming
technology ecosystem established in United States, which is
represented by the Universal Interoperability of Grid-Forming
Inverters consortium, funded by the Department of Energy. The
author also emphasizes that a decarbonized power system will
depend on the interoperability of grid-forming and grid-following
inverters.
The first feature, " Pathways to the Next-Generation Power System
With Inverter-Based Resources, " was contributed by Yashen
Lin, Joseph H. Eto, Brian B. Johnson, Jack D. Flicker, Robert H. Lasseter,
Hugo N. Villegas Pico, Gab-Su Seo, Brian J. Pierre, Abraham Ellis,
Jeremiah Miller, and Guohui Yuan. It begins with an overview of
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Associate Editors
Electric Trains
Tamas Ruzsanyi
Ganz-Skoda
Hungary
tamas.ruzsanyi@ieee.org
Eduardo Pilo de la Fuente
University Francisco Vitoria
Spain
eduardo.pilo@ufv.es
José Conrado Martínez
Administrador de
Infraestructuras
Ferroviarias
Spain
jcmartinez@adif.es
Microgrid
Suryanarayana Doolla
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
India
suryad@iitb.ac.in
Mohammad
Shahidehpour
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
ms@iit.edu
Steve Pullins
AlphaStruxure
Massachusetts, USA
steve.pullins@se.com
Antonello Monti
RWTH Aachen
Germany
amonti@eonerc
.rwth-aachen.de
Electric Ships
Marta Molinas
Norwegian University
of Science and
Technology
Norway
marta.molinas@ntnu.no
Herb Ginn
University of
South Carolina
South Carolina, USA
ginnhl@cec.sc.edu
Robert Cuzner
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wisconsin, USA
Cuzner@uwm.edu
Electric Vehicles
Khwaja Rahman
Rivian
Michigan, USA
krahman@rivian.com
Silva Hiti
Rivian
California, USA
silvahiti@rivian.com
Eduard Muljadi
Auburn University
Alabama, USA
mze0018@auburn.edu
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
kmahesh@iit.edu
Electric Planes
Syed A. Hossain
GE Aviation
Ohio, USA
syed.hossain@ge.com
Kaushik Rajashekara
University of Houston
Texas, USA
ksraja@central.uh.edu
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
McMaster University
Canada
Babak.nahid@ieee.org
Bulent Sarlioglu
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin, USA
bulent@engr.wisc.edu
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