Frontiers in Energy Research (Jan 2022)

Optimal Adaptive Inertial Droop Control–Based Power System Frequency Regulation via Wind Farms

  • Yijun Chen,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Yiming Han,
  • Tingyi He,
  • Peng He,
  • Xian Meng,
  • Xin He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.819398
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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Wind farm–based frequency regulation of the power system has progressively attracted more attention owing to its higher power generation capacity. Among which the step start-up and adaptive inertial droop control of wind turbines with a maximum power point efficiently regulate the system frequency via fully utilizing the rotational kinetic energy. Besides, the coefficients of adaptive droop control and virtual inertial control will facilitate a significant influence on the frequency support performance and operation status of wind turbines for the power grid. To obtain optimal control parameters, a parameter optimization framework of a step start-up adaptive inertial and droop controller combined with the CGO algorithm is proposed, whose effectiveness is verified by a three-area four-terminal VSC-MT-HVDC–based WFs and AC system in MATLAB/Simulink. As a result, a set of parameters with a satisfactory and comprehensive dynamic control performance can be acquired by the proposed method under both 200 MW and 300 WM load increases compared with the trial-and-error approach.

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