Towards Electronics-based Emergency Control in Power Grids with High Renewable Penetration

TL;DR

This paper proposes an electronics-based emergency control method for power grids with high renewable energy, using synchronverters to mimic generator dynamics and stabilize the system without power interruptions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel emergency control scheme utilizing power electronics to control inertia and damping in renewable-rich grids, reducing costs and improving stability.

Findings

Control of inertia and damping via synchronverters stabilizes the system.

The scheme reduces economic damages by avoiding power outages.

Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.

Abstract

Traditional emergency control schemes in power systems usually accompany with power interruption yielding severely economic damages to customers. This paper sketches the ideas of a viable alternative for traditional remedial controls for power grids with high penetration of renewables, in which the renewables are integrated with synchronverters to mimic the dynamics of conventional generators. In this novel emergency control scheme, the power electronics resources are exploited to control the inertia and damping of the imitated generators in order to quickly compensate for the deviations caused by fault and thereby bound the fault-on dynamics and stabilize the power system under emergency situations. This emergency control not only saves investments and operating costs for modern and future power systems, but also helps to offer seamless electricity service to customers. Simple numerical simulation will be used to illustrate the concept of this paper.