Enhanced Primary Frequency Control Using Model Predictive Control in Large-Islanded Power Grids with High Penetration of DFIG-Based Wind Farm

A new primary frequency controller in power grids undergoing massive wind power penetration is the focus of this paper. The inescapable problem in a largely wind penetrated power grid is to ensure the maintenance of its frequency in the nominal band prescribed by the power system operator (PSO). How...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 16; no. 11; p. 4389
Main Authors Youssef Ait Ali, Ouassaid, Mohammed, Cabrane, Zineb, Soo-Hyoung, Lee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2023
Subjects
Controllers
DFIG-based wind farm
Electricity distribution
Frequency control
Frequency dependence
Frequency response
Induction generators
inertial control
Literature reviews
Maximum power tracking
Optimization
power grid
predictive control
primary frequency control
Turbines
Wind farms
Wind power
Wind speed
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Summary:A new primary frequency controller in power grids undergoing massive wind power penetration is the focus of this paper. The inescapable problem in a largely wind penetrated power grid is to ensure the maintenance of its frequency in the nominal band prescribed by the power system operator (PSO). However, with the massive arrival of wind farms with conventional control schemes, the operation of maintaining and restoring the frequency to the regulatory regimes remains very complicated. In order to overcome the above problem, this paper proposes a new strategy for primary frequency control in power grids using model predictive control (MPC) for a multi-cluster doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farm (WF), with a main objective of reducing the frequency nadir (FN), eliminating the second frequency dip (SFD), and providing the optimal support during wind speed variations. In this approach, a rolling prediction and optimization control strategy is developed based on the dynamic power system model to ideally predict the additional power to be provided. Moreover, in order to avoid second frequency dips, the wind turbines (WTs) are not allocated to extract additional power from the grid during the frequency event, the rotor speeds are not recovered to the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) operating points during the primary frequency control. The performance of the proposed controller was evaluated using a two-zone electrical system in MATLAB/Simulink®. The obtained results disclose that the frequency nadir is enhanced with more than 6.1% compared to the conventional schemes. In addition, the frequency response settling time has been improved with more than 10.51 s.
ISSN:1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en16114389