An energy storage coordinated control strategy based on model predictive control for smoothing wind power fluctuations

Based on the nature of wind, wind power fluctuations can cause significant problems in the distribution network. One of the solutions is to integrate an energy storage system with wind farm to mitigate the output power fluctuations. Therefore, an energy storage coordinated control strategy based on model predictive control is proposed to smooth minute-scale fluctuations of wind power. By analysing the limitations of traditional control strategy, four operating modes of battery energy storage system which are determined by the predicted state of charge obtained by model predictive control, are designed to avoid violating the state of charge limitation, and an energy state feedback control is designed to adjust the initial power allocation orders of batteries. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy can be verified by the real-time digital simulator. The results indicate that the developed approach reduces the switching times of batteries and improves the ability of the battery energy storage system to smooth wind power fluctuations significantly.