Optimizing wind turbine participation for frequency regulation in large scale power systems

This paper proposes an optimization approach for the participation of wind turbines in large scale power systems. The wind turbine participation optimization aims to regulate the droop slopes and the synthetic inertia of the aggregated wind turbines to command the power contribution of wind turbines proportional to their power ratings in the primary frequency response schemes. A reduced second order model of power system is firstly presented to simplify the analysis of large scale power system. Meanwhile, the internal dynamics of general wind turbines are analyzed and the concept of stability margin is proposed to describe the wind turbines' capability of enduring frequency dips at the bus node. A convex optimization based approach is then presented to regulate the droop slopes and synthetic inertia of the wind turbines incorporating their stability margin. Five case studies are conducted in New England 39-bus system, IEEE 118-bus power system and the Polish 3375-bus system. The simulation results indicate that the proposed approach is capable of transiting the bus frequency to the new steady state in a smoother and more stable manner.