US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on March 3 for "Methods to provide electric power from renewable energy equipment to an electrical load" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,747, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Methods to provide electric power from renewable energy equipment to an electrical load" was invented by Yin Sun (The Hague, Netherlands) and Martijn Lunshof (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HVDC system comprising an AC/DC converter sub-system electrically connected to a renewable energy equipment and a VSC sub-system is provided. A method comprises operating the renewable energy equipment to function as a voltage source to energize an HVDC link between the AC/DC converter sub-system and the VSC sub-system; operating the VSC sub-system as a voltage source ...