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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2024
GE Infrastructure Technology Llc, Greenville, SC (US);
Vaidhya Nath Venkitanarayanan, Schenectady, NY (US);
Timothy W. Jayko, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Charles Joseph Kosuth, Asheville, NC (US);
Brian C. Reese, Inman, SC (US);
Amy M. Ridenour, Salem, VA (US);
Steven Wade Sutherland, Roanoke, VA (US);
Logan Alphonse Toynbee, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US);
Abstract
A method for providing multi-layer protection from faults for a power generation plant is provided. The method includes monitoring, via a system-level controller, one or more parameters at a first plurality of distributed generation resources. The method also includes implementing, via the system-level controller, a fault protection mode upon the one or more parameters of the first plurality of distributed generation resources exceeding a first threshold. Specifically, the fault protection mode includes implementing a time delay, and after the time delay, commanding, via the system-level controller, a trip of the first feeder breaker on a first feeder line. The method also includes exiting the fault protection mode when the one or more parameters of the first plurality of distributed generation resources are equal to or fall below the first threshold.