Summary:
This paper proposes a new reactive-power control strategy for High Voltage Direct Current multi-terminal systems with Voltage Source Converter stations (VSC-HVDC) to improve transient stability in electric power transmission systems. The proposed algorithm uses local measurements to estimate, in each converter station, a weighted average of the frequencies seen by the VSC stations of the HVDC multi-terminal system. This estimation is carried out making use of a (small) auxiliary local active-power modulation along with the DC-side voltage droop control in the VSC stations, where the latter also uses local measurements only. The estimated frequency is used as the set point for supplementary reactive-power control at each converter station. The proposed control law has been simulated in a test system using PSS/E and the results show that it improves transient stability, significantly, producing similar results to those obtained controlling reactive power using global measurements.
Keywords: VSC HVDC; Multi-terminal; Transient stability; Reactive power control; Power systems; Local measurements
JCR-JIF Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 3,211 - Q2 (2019); 4,300 - Q2 (2025)
DOI reference:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2019.04.032
Published on paper: September 2019.
Published on-line: May 2019.
Citation:
J. Renedo, L. Rouco, A. García-Cerrada, L. Sigrist, "A communication-free reactive-power control strategy in VSC-HVDC multi-terminal systems to improve transient stability", Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 174, pp. 105854, September 2019. [Online: May 2019] doi: 10.1016/j.epsr.2019.04.032
