Non-parametric Impedance based Stability and Controller Bandwidth Extraction from Impedance Measurements of HVDC-connected Wind Farms

TL;DR

This paper introduces a non-parametric method to identify the impact of specific controller bandwidths on system stability using impedance measurements in HVDC-connected wind farms, aiding in stability analysis and controller tuning.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to extract and analyze the internal controller bandwidths from impedance data without vendor information, enhancing stability assessment of interconnected wind farm and HVDC systems.

Findings

Identified the controller bandwidths impacting system stability.

Demonstrated the method's effectiveness on real impedance measurements.

Proposed a re-tuning strategy for controllers to mitigate oscillations.

Abstract

Impedance measurements have been widely used with the Nyquist plot to estimate the stability of interconnected power systems. Being a black-box method for equivalent and aggregated impedance estimation, its use for the identification of sub-components bandwidth is not a straightforward task. This paper proposes a simple method that will enable to identify the specific part of the equivalent impedance (e.g. controller's bandwidth) that has major impact on the stability of the system. For doing that, the paper analyses the stability of an interconnected system of wind farms and high voltage dc (HVDC) transmission system. The impedance frequency responses of the wind farms and HVDC system from the ac collection point are measured and it is shown by the method proposed in this paper, which controller has major impact in the observed oscillation. A mitigation technique is proposed based on re-tuning of the critical controller bandwidth of the interconnected converters. The method suggested can reveal the internal controllers' dynamics of the wind farm from the measured impedance combined with an analytical expression of the impedance and a transfer function identity when no information about the controllers is provided by the vendors due to confidentiality and industry secrecy.