scholarly journals Virtual Inertia Control Application to Enhance Frequency Stability of Interconnected Power Systems with High Renewable Energy Penetration

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thongchart Kerdphol ◽  
Fathin Rahman ◽  
Yasunori Mitani
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Frequency Stability ◽  
Interconnected Power Systems ◽  
Virtual Inertia ◽  
Inertia Control ◽  
Control Application

scholarly journals Dynamic Frequency Support from a DFIG-Based Wind Turbine Generator via Virtual Inertia Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejian Yang ◽  
Enshu Jin ◽  
Jiahan You ◽  
Liang Hua
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Frequency Stability ◽  
Virtual Inertia ◽  
Inertia Control ◽  
System Frequency ◽  
Inertia Response

As the penetrated level of wind in power grids increases, the online system inertia becomes weak. Doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind turbine generators (WTGs) are required to provide virtual inertia response to support system frequency. The present inertia control strategy with fixed control gain is not suitable and may cause stall of the DFIG-based WTG, as the virtual inertia response potential from the DFIG-based WTG is different with various wind speed conditions. This paper addresses a virtual inertia control method for the DFIG-based WTGs to improve the system frequency stability without causing stalling of the wind turbine for various wind speed conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed virtual inertia control method is investigated in a small system embedded with the DFIG-based WTG. Results demonstrate that the proposed virtual inertia strategy improves the frequency stability without causing the rotor speed security issue. Thus, the proposed control strategy can secure the dynamic system frequency security of power systems under the scenarios of full and partial loads, and, consequently, the proposed method provides a promising solution of ancillary services to power systems.

scholarly journals A Review of Virtual Inertia Techniques for Renewable Energy-Based Generators

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Fernández-Guillamón ◽  
Emilio Gómez-Lázaro ◽  
Eduard Muljadi ◽  
Ángel Molina-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Power System ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Virtual Inertia ◽  
Alternative Sources

Over recent decades, the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES), especially photovoltaic and wind power plants, has been promoted in most countries. However, as these both alternative sources have power electronics at the grid interface (inverters), they are electrically decoupled from the grid. Subsequently, stability and reliability of power systems are compromised. Inertia in power systems has been traditionally determined by considering all the rotating masses directly connected to the grid. Thus, as the penetration of renewable units increases, the inertia of the power system decreases due to the reduction of directly connected rotating machines. As a consequence, power systems require a new set of strategies to include these renewable sources. In fact, ‘hidden inertia,’ ‘synthetic inertia’ and ‘virtual inertia’ are terms currently used to represent an artificial inertia created by inverter control strategies of such renewable sources. This chapter reviews the inertia concept and proposes a method to estimate the rotational inertia in different parts of the world. In addition, an extensive discussion on wind and photovoltaic power plants and their contribution to inertia and power system stability is presented.

scholarly journals Provision of Frequency Stability of an Islanded Microgrid Using a Novel Virtual Inertia Control and a Fractional Order Cascade Controller

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4152
Author(s):  
Soroush Oshnoei ◽  
Mohammadreza Aghamohammadi ◽  
Siavash Oshnoei ◽  
Arman Oshnoei ◽  
Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo
Keyword(s):  
Fractional Order ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Frequency Control ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Dynamic Performance ◽  
Frequency Stability ◽  
Virtual Inertia ◽  
Inertia Control ◽  
System Frequency

Nowadays, the renewable energy sources in microgrids (MGs) have high participation to supply the consumer’s demand. In such MGs, the problems such as the system frequency stability, inertia, and damping reduction are threatened. To overcome this challenge, employing the virtual inertia control (VIC) concept in the MG structure could be considered as a viable solution to improve the system frequency response. Hence, this work proposes a novel modeling for VIC in an islanded MG that provides simultaneous emulation of the primary frequency control, virtual inertia, and damping. To show the efficiency of the proposed technique, a comparison is made between the dynamic performance of the proposed VIC and conventional VIC under different scenarios. The results indicate that the proposed VIC presents superior frequency performance in comparison with conventional VIC. In addition to VIC modeling, a new cascade controller based on three-degrees of freedom and fractional-order controllers (FOCs) is proposed as an MG secondary controller. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is compared to tilt-integral-derivative and FO proportional-integral-derivative controllers. The Squirrel search algorithm is utilized to obtain the optimal coefficients of the controllers. The results demonstrate that the proposed controller improves the MG frequency performance over other controllers. Eventually, the sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the robustness of the proposed controller in the face of the variations of the parameters.

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