Power Oscillation Damping Improvement by Adding Multiple Wind Farms to Wide-Area Coordinating Controls

Abstract

This paper examines the feasibility of coordinating variable-speed wind farms with other power system devices, such as flexible ac transmission systems and synchronous generators, to damp low-frequency oscillations. For this purpose, an observer-based state-feedback approach is used to build a power oscillation damping (POD) controller, implemented through coordinated actions of multiple control devices, and able to manage several measurement channels. The wide-area POD controller also presents a time-delay compensation stage to mitigate adverse effects of latency involved in wide-area communication systems. Several practical issues are discussed and analyzed, such as measurement and control selection, model-order reduction, transmission time-delay compensation, impact of the POD control on wind farms, and robustness aspects. The control performance is evaluated and compared with other control schemes using eigenvalue analyses and nonlinear time-domain simulations over a wide range of operating conditions, for example, severe system faults, N - 1 outage contingencies, load/generation shedding, and line tripping.