Multi-Objective Optimal Control Approach for Static Voltage Stability of Power System Considering Interval Uncertainty of the Wind Farm Output

Abstract

The static voltage stability margin (SVSM) of a power system considering the uncertain fluctuation range of wind farm (WF) output can be described as an interval value called the SVSM interval. A multi-objective optimal control model for SVS of a power system considering the interval uncertainty of WF output is proposed. The objective functions of the model are to increase the central value and reduce the fluctuation range of the SVSM interval, and the decision variables are the active power output and terminal voltage of generators and the switching capacity of shunt capacitors. Thus, it is a multi-layer optimization model. A parametric approximation (PA) method is used to obtain the approximate functional relationship between the optimal objective function values and the decision variables of the inner-layer and mid-layer optimization models and convert the optimization model into a single-layer bi-objective optimization model. A method for obtaining the continuous Pareto frontier of the bi-objective optimization model is proposed based on the normalized normal constraint and PA methods, and the compromise optimal solution calculated from the continuous Pareto frontier is used as the optimal control scheme. Two methods for improving the calculation efficiency of the PA method are also proposed. Finally, results from experimentation on the IEEE 39-bus system and an actual provincial power grid demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

• Static voltage stability margin
• wind power interval uncertainty
• multi-objective multi-layer optimization
• parametric approximation
• continuous Pareto frontier