Aggregation Strategy for Reactive Power Compensation Techniques—Validation

Jibran Ali, Stefano Massucco and Federico Silvestro
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Jibran Ali: MEAN4SG & DITEN—University of Genoa, via all’Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova, Italy
Stefano Massucco: DITEN—University of Genova, via all’Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova, Italy
Federico Silvestro: DITEN—University of Genova, via all’Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova, Italy

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Reactive power provision is a vital ancillary service, which provides opportunities to service market and power generators. The net reactive power in a balanced power grid needs to be zero, and the imbalance occurs due to the capacitive and inductive behavior of the extensive transmission lines, and because of the intermittent behavior of load-demand. This mismanagement in reactive power causes voltage instability, and hence the paper compares the most common reactive power compensation techniques, which are prevalent in both literature and commercial levels. The paper perceives the trade-off between the compared techniques, and realizes to use the aggregation of different techniques to present a coordinated control mechanism that complies with the Italian regulations. The parameters for the proposed aggregation include the amount of reactive power, real power losses during reactive power provision, and response time. The paper then implements IEEE 9 bus transmission-generation system in DIgSILENT to set up the platform for validation of the proposed strategy. Finally, it simulates Transmission System Operator (TSO) test cases on the implemented test system.

Keywords: DIgSILENT; power system; reactive power; voltage profiling; ancillary services; transmission system operator (TSO) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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