Islanding
Sign in to saveIslanding is the intentional or unintentional division of an interconnected power grid into individual disconnected regions with their own power generation.
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10 sectionsContents
- Intentional islanding
- Home islanding
- Detection methods
- Inverter-specific techniques
- Distributed generation controversy
- References
- Bibliography
- Standards
- Further reading
- External links
Islanding is the intentional or unintentional division of an interconnected power grid into individual disconnected regions with their own power generation.
Intentional islanding is often performed as a defence in depth to mitigate a cascading blackout. If one island collapses, it will not take neighboring islands with it. For example, nuclear power plants have safety-critical cooling systems that are typically powered from the general grid. The coolant loops typically lie on a separate circuit that can also operate off reactor power or emergency diesel generators if the grid collapses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Islanding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.