Ireland (EirGrid) — ride-through requirements

The LVRT envelope a grid-scale battery must meet under Ireland (EirGrid), digitized breakpoint by breakpoint and checked against the clause it came from.

By Sergey Syrvachev — Director of Product Engineering at HyperStrong

Applies to: both connections — Controllable wind farm power stations (WFPS).

Part of: the grid-code ride-through chart — compare this against 65 other standards in 44 countries.

What this is, and is not. A reading aid compiled from the clause cited below — not a compliance document. The primary text governs. Every value here was read from a current primary source.

Breakpoints

Times are seconds from the start of the disturbance. Voltage is per-unit of nominal; frequency in hertz. An LVRT curve is a lower boundary (stay connected while voltage is on or above it), an HVRT curve an upper boundary, and FRT gives the band between its High and Low boundaries. These are the boundaries, not the behaviour: what holding one demands of the converter — reactive current injection, thermal stress, protection timing — is stepped through in the LVRT / HVRT ride-through visual.

EventDutyBreakpointsStatus
low-voltage ride-through (LVRT)ride-through0.001s → 0.15 pu; 0.625s → 0.15 pu; ↗ 3s → 0.9 puverified

Where these values come from

  • LVRTEirGrid Grid Code v6 (22 July 2015), clause WFPS1.4.1 and Figure WFPS1.1 'Fault Ride-Through Capability of Controllable WFPSs': heavy black boundary at 15% U/Un from 0 to 625 ms, rising linearly to 90% at 3000 ms; axis ticks 0, 150, 625, 3000 ms. Verified by rendering the figure page directly. The code defines a linear recovery ramp; the vertices are read from the clause and the chart draws the segment between them.

Read it yourself: EirGrid Grid Code (PDF) ↗

Any event not in the table above is not plotted for this code. Where an absence is itself the finding — a code that defines no high-voltage envelope, or one whose curves circulate under another country's name — it is recorded in the grid codes with no ride-through curve.

Last checked against the source document on .

How Ireland compares

Each event this code defines, put side by side with every other code that defines it:

Other grid codes in Europe