Jiang, John2022-12-272022-12-272023-01-03978-0-9981331-6-4https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102948The discovery of an unfamiliar class of nonlinear energy waves in electric energy systems with dominating coupled inverter-based energy resources has been reported in a recent research project. Whenever there are slight but persistent differences among the reference signals used by inverters in pulse-width modulation, i.e., a weak group modulation instability condition, the unfamiliar energy waves appear, which contain not only the familiar frequency components present in electric power systems but also self-organized components in the ultra-high frequency region of the energy spectrum. These components are found to be exploding solitary waves with concentrated energy masses, hence we call them power solitons. This paper explains the work of the discovery reported, and the implications of the presence of power solitons for grid integration of inverter-based resources and power system protection.10engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalDistributed, Renewable, and Mobile Resourcesdistributed generationdistribution system pretectionintergration compatibilityinverter-based resourcesmodulation instabilitynon-linear wave propagationsolitonstransient stabilitytext10.24251/HICSS.2023.317