A consecutive power dispatch in wind farms to mitigate secondary frequency dips

Abstract

With the rapid increase of wind energy integrated into power systems, wind turbine generators (WTGs) are required to provide frequency support to maintain the system frequency stability. However, the frequency regulation is achieved by employing temporary energy reserves from WTGs at the initial stage of a disturbance. Therefore, a second frequency dip (SFD) may occur, if no other energy reserve is available to compensate the power deficiency as WTGs have to recover their operating points and rotor speeds back to the initial operating points. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes a consecutive power dispatch scheme to reduce the SFD and prevent WTGs from over-deceleration. All WTGs are divided into two groups with in a wind farm: Group 1 (G1) WTGs operating at maximum power point tracking (MPPT), Group 2 (G2) WTGs operating at deloading power. If a frequency contingency occurs, the proposed scheme aims to release an amount of kinetic energy (KE) stored in the rotating masses of G1 WTGs to improve the frequency nadir (FN). Following this, energy reserves are released from G2 WTGs to compensate the power shortage during the period when G1 WTGs rotor speeds have to be recovered. The simulation results show that the scheme causes a small SFD while improving the first FN and preventing the rotor from over-decelerations in various wind conditions, contingency sizes, and wind penetration levels.