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Impact of Solar Generation Unit On The Static Stability of Power Systems
Impact of Solar Generation Unit On The Static Stability of Power Systems
Abstract—The main goal of renewable energy is to ensure RES schemes on the one hand has negatively impacts to the EPS
global access to inexpensive and reliable energy sources, a high operation, but on the other hand opens up new opportunities.
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level of environmental and climatic safety, as well as to improve Thus, VSC provides a rapid response and independent
the reliability and efficiency of power supply of consumers. regulation of frequency and voltage (operation in the four
However, penetration level of renewable generation also has a quadrants of the PQ diagram) and a "flexible" regulation of the
great impact on the stability of the system. In particular, based on regime parameters of EPS [21-23] and significantly expands the
the power electronic interface renewable unit impacts on the degree of controllability and efficiency renewable generation
processes in system, changes its frequency spectrum and increases units as a whole. The above determines the need to analyze the
the potential for the appearance of new operation modes of power
operation of EPS with renewable generation based on the VSC
system. The analysis of the static stability of system with different
penetration level of solar generation unit is shown in this paper.
[24, 25].
The results of studies of loading in normal and post-emergency Therefore, taking into account this fact the results of the
modes of power system, calculation of static stability margin of analysis of the impact of PV station with VSC on the static
active power and voltage, and analysis of damping properties of stability are presented in this paper.
power system without and with renewable units are presented.
The paper is organized as follow: In Section 2 the test
Keywords—power system, solar generation unit, static stability, scheme of EPS is described, in particular, part of Eastern Siberia
modeling, analysis. power system is considered. It is characterized by the problem
of power deficit: the low capacity of conventional power
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) stations, as well as limitations in capacity of power flow from
Renewable power generation units, in particular solar power, the United energy system of Siberia, and from neighboring EPS,
are becoming increasingly important in the structure of modern as the existing power networks (along Baikal-Amur Mainline)
electric power system (EPS). Thus, according to the Global operate at the limit of capacity. In addition, the studied part of
Market Outlook report for 2020 the penetration level of solar EPS is located in a zone with significant solar radiation, so this
power or photovoltaic (PV) plants in the world was increased by energy district is a good example, in which the introduction of
138.2 GW, and another increase of 203 GW is planned for 2022 PV station can solve the existing problems of power deficit and
[1-9]. increase the stability of the EPS. In Section 3 the studies of
loading in normal and post-emergency modes, calculation of
Scheme of PV station involves connection to the grid static stability margin of active power and voltage аre presented.
through a voltage source converter (VSC) [10-14]. In this case, Additionally, the analysis of damping properties of EPS without
due to the lack of rotating parts, the growth of total installed and with renewable energy generation have been carried out.
power of renewable energy source (RES) units based on the Finally, in Section 4 the paper is concluded.
VSC leads to decrease of the total (physical) inertia, so it
changes the EPS processes, its frequency spectrum and increases II. DESCRIPTION OF THE SCHEME OF EPS
the probability of power oscillations, in particular low frequency
The considered scheme of the studied part of Eastern Siberia
oscillations (LFO), parameters and trajectory of which are
power system is shown in Fig. 1. It was mentioned that injection
different from LFO in traditional EPS [15]. In addition, the
of solar energy allows to solve the problems of the power deficit
authors of [16, 17] indicated the problem of adequate modeling
and is one of the possible solutions to improve the reliable and
of oscillations in "weak" EPS (which is characterized by small
sustainable power supply to consumers. There are two options
value of short-circuit ratio). The problem is related to the fact
for connecting of PV station in buses # 7 and # 10 are
that the traditional settings of the automatic control system of
considered, which are justified by suitable climatic conditions
VSC of RES units, used for "strong" networks, are
[26]: the district is located near the zone of maximum intensity
unsatisfactory in the case of "weak" networks and lead to the
of solar radiation. The structural scheme of PV station is
occurrence of undamped oscillations of different frequencies
presented in Fig. 2.
[18-20]. However, as it was shown above, the use of VSC in the
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Fig. 4 shows the power flow through the one circuit of TABLE III. THE STATIC STABILITY MARGIN OF VOLTAGE
110 kV transmission line (branch 3-5) because of loading mode Scenario # ࡷࢁ
without PV1. 1 0.56
20.0
2 0.59
19.85 3 0.61
19.0 4 0.52
5 0.58
18.0
6 0.60
17.0
P, MW
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117.3 οܲ
ܦൌ
ܲଵ െ ܲଶ
117.25
Note that, in accordance with [31], the value of the
experiment №4 coefficient D should be less than ͲǤͲͳ pu: the damping
117.2
experiment №3 properties of the EPS are satisfactory and the setting of the AVR
U, kV
∆P 0.1725 5 33 0,00669
10 D= = = 0.0361
P1-P2 19.768-14.996 7,5 50 0,00570
8 10 66 0,00590
6
0
IV. CONCLUSION
100 102 104 106 108 110 112 114 116
t, s In this paper the results of the analysis of solar generation
units on static stability of EPS are presented. In the Eurostag
Fig. 7. Oscillograms of the active power of the generator G-1 in case of short software the EPS test scheme and the model of PV station have
circuit at bus # 4 (ܲଶ ൌ ͳͷ MW). been realized.
The degree of damping of the transient process (D) is It was found that increasing the installed capacity of PV
calculated as the ratio of the difference between the amplitudes station not only provides the necessary level of generated power
of the active power oscillations (οܲ) and the difference between to meet the needs of consumers, but also significantly increases
the amplitudes of the first oscillation of the active power (ܲଵ ) the static stability margin of active power and voltage and
and the steady value of the active power of the generator (ܲଶ ): improves the limits of transmitted power.
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