Optimization of Battery Energy Storage to Improve Power System Oscillation Damping

This paper studies the optimization of both the placement and controller parameters for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) to improve power system oscillation damping. For each BESS, dynamic power output characteristics of the power converter interface are modeled considering the power limit, State of Charge limit, and time constant. Then, a black-box mixed-integer optimization problem is formulated and tackled by interfacing time-domain simulation with a mixed-integer Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The proposed optimization approach is demonstrated on the New England 39-bus system and a Nordic test system. The optimal results are also verified by time-domain simulation. To improve the applicability and efficiency of the proposed method, seasonal load changes and the minimum number of BESS units to be placed are considered. The proposed controller is also compared to other controllers to validate its performance.