Impedance sensitive STATCOM control for systems supported by renewable generation

Reactive power control is known to be an effective means of controlling voltage; however, for optimal performance, the system reactance must be known. Power systems with high re-newable energy penetration have been known to have voltage stability issues. To further complicate this issue, distributed...

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Main Authors: Rose, Christopher James, Sumner, Mark, Thomas, David W.P., Christopher, Edward
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43540/
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Summary:Reactive power control is known to be an effective means of controlling voltage; however, for optimal performance, the system reactance must be known. Power systems with high re-newable energy penetration have been known to have voltage stability issues. To further complicate this issue, distributed renewable sources are likely to have an effect on the local sys-tem impedance. As a result, connection and disconnection of such sources is likely to result in significant changes in system impedance. In this paper, impedance estimation is used to dy-namically tune the controllers of a STATCOM so that consis-tent dynamic performance may be obtained. The method has been verified through simulation and through laboratory-based experimentation