People in the power industry understand inertia and its importance to grid stability. As large thermal power plants and other inertia-providing units are replaced with renewable resources that provide ...

In simple terms, inertia refers to the energy stored in the rotating masses of synchronous generators, typically found in traditional thermal power plants. This stored kinetic energy acts as a cushion ...

Tucked away behind a cash-and-carry in a Liverpool suburb is a 40-tonne cylinder of steel spinning 1,500 times a minute. Its 500 megajoules of kinetic energy are the equivalent of the chemical energy ...

Grid-forming inverters “are going to be needed once we get to very high levels of inverter-based resources,” said Ben Kroposki, organizational director of the UNIFI Consortium and director of the ...