Multi-objective configuration and evaluation of dynamic virtual inertia from DFIG based wind farm for frequency regulation

Abstract

Modern power systems are gradually evolving into low-inertia systems due to the integration of high penetration of renewable energy and power electronic equipment. For the natural inertia on the rotor, doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind farms are expected to provide inertia support for systems. The paper proposed an analytical model of DFIG with df/dt inertia control for studying frequency dynamics, and investigates the optimal design of virtual inertia from wind farms, as well as its equivalent inertia contribution to system. The inertia response differences between DFIG and synchronous generator (SG) are discussed and analyzed for the first time, and then to accurately describe the frequency response with low cost, an analytical model of DFIG with inertia control is developed considering wind turbine aerodynamic characteristics. The explicit expression of virtual inertia provided by DFIG is derived according to the kinetic energy equilibrium, and the key factors that dominate the magnitude of virtual inertia are illustrated. Based on the system frequency response model including wind farms, taking the system frequency nadir (SFN) and the time of reaching nadir (ToN) as targets, a multi-objective optimal configuration model of virtual inertia is constructed and solved through MOPSO. The time domain simulations of a generic two machine four bus system and modified IEEE 9-bus test system are both performed in MATLAB/Simulink, the accuracy and efficiency of our proposed DFIG model on system frequency dynamics research are demonstrated, the pareto frontiers of virtual inertia configuration under different working conditions are optimized and analyzed as well as the impacts of different parameters on inertia evaluation.

Keywords

• Inertia control
• Analytical model
• Frequency dynamics
• DFIG
• Inertia contribution