Active Power Management of Virtual Power Plant under Penetration of Central Receiver Solar Thermal-Wind Using Butterfly Optimization Technique

Partha Pratim Dey, Dulal Chandra Das, Abdul Latif, S. M. Suhail Hussain and Taha Selim Ustun
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Partha Pratim Dey: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India
Dulal Chandra Das: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India
Abdul Latif: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India
S. M. Suhail Hussain: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FERA), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Koriyama 963-0298, Japan
Taha Selim Ustun: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FERA), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Koriyama 963-0298, Japan

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: Striving for the suppression of greenhouse emissions, the modern power network is facing fundamental changes with the utilization of renewable energies (REs) for the future carbon-free society. The utilization of intermittent renewable-green power needs a better power management system and virtual power plant (VPP) can be a vital candidate that meets this demand. This study investigates a coordinated control grid integrated virtual power plant (VPP) in the presence of Central Receiver Solar Thermal System (CRSTS), Wind Turbine Generator (WTG), and Electric Vehicle (EV). To this end, CRSTS employed with thermal storage acts as a dispatchable renewable generating unit and coordinated control of the system units are achieved using the available control strategy on interconnected microgrids in the modified form, employing communication time delay. The proposed control strategy employs the proportional-integral (PI) and PI-derivative (PID) controller. Coordinated power control with real-time communication delay in grid integrated VPP in presence of CRSTS, WTG, and EV is a novel approach. Genetic algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Slap Swarm Algorithm (SSA), and recent Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) are used for tuning the necessary control parameters. The results establish the superiority of the BOA over SSA and PSO in suppressing system frequency deviations and tie line power deviation. The analysis of the dynamic response reveals that the consideration of the communication delay in the system expressively impedes the stable operation of the power system.

Keywords: central receiver solar thermal system (CRSTS); virtual power plant (VPP); frequency regulation; communication time delay; threshold time delay; butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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