Coordinated Frequency Regulation in Grid-Forming Storage Network via Safety-Consensus

Inverter-based storages are poised to play a prominent role in future power grids with massive renewable generation. Grid-forming inverters (GFMs) are emerging as a dominant technology with synchronous generators (SG)-like characteristics through primary control loops. Advanced secondary control sch...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-10
Main Authors: Ramij Raja Hossain, Chatterjee, Kaustav, Nandanoori, Sai Pushpak, Kundu, Soumya, Marinovici, Laurentiu, Kalsi, Karan, Baldwin, Diane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Frequency deviation
Inverters
Storage units
Synchronous machines
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Summary:Inverter-based storages are poised to play a prominent role in future power grids with massive renewable generation. Grid-forming inverters (GFMs) are emerging as a dominant technology with synchronous generators (SG)-like characteristics through primary control loops. Advanced secondary control schemes, e.g., consensus algorithms, allow GFM-interfaced storage units to participate in frequency regulations and restore nominal frequency following grid disturbances. However, it is imperative to ensure transient frequency excursions do not violate critical safety limits while the grid transitions from pre- to post-disturbance operating point. This paper presents a hierarchical safety-enforced consensus method -- combining a device-layer (decentralized) transient safety filter with a secondary-layer (distributed) consensus coordination -- to achieve three distinct objectives: limiting transient frequency excursions to safe limits, minimizing frequency deviations from nominal, and ensuring coordinated power sharing among GFM-storage units. The proposed hierarchical (two-layered) safety-consensus technique is illustrated using a GFM-interfaced storage network on an IEEE 68-bus system under multiple grid transient scenarios.
ISSN:2331-8422