A preventive control strategy for static voltage stability based on an efficient power plant model of electric vehicles

Abstract

With the increasing integration of wind farms and electric vehicles (EVs) in power systems, voltage stability is becoming more and more serious. Based on vehicle-to-grid (V2G), an efficient power plant model of EVs (E-EPP) was developed to estimate EV charging load with available corresponding response capacity under different charging strategies. A preventive control strategy based on E-EPP was proposed to maintain the static voltage stability margin (VSM) of power system above a predefined security level. Two control modes were used including the disconnection of EV charging load (‘V1G’ mode) and the discharge of stored battery energy back to power grid (‘V2G’ mode). A modified IEEE 14-bus system with high penetration of wind power and EVs was used to verify the effectiveness of preventive control strategy. Simulation results showed that the proposed strategy can not only improve the static voltage stability of power system with considerable wind generation, but also guarantee the travelling comfort for EV owners.

Keywords

• Electric vehicle (EV)
• Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)
• Efficient power plant (EPP)
• Preventive control
• Static voltage stability