Proving a Concept of Flexible Under-Frequency Load Shedding with Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

Denis Sodin, Rajne Ilievska, Andrej Čampa, Miha Smolnikar and Urban Rudez
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Denis Sodin: Institute Jozef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rajne Ilievska: Laboratory of Electric Power Supply, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andrej Čampa: Institute Jozef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Miha Smolnikar: Institute Jozef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Urban Rudez: Laboratory of Electric Power Supply, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-17

Abstract: It is widely recognized that in the transition from conventional electrical power systems (EPSs) towards smart grids, electrical voltage frequency will be greatly affected. This is why this research is extremely valuable, especially since rate-of-change-of-frequency ( RoCoF ) is often considered as a potential means of resolving newly arisen problems, but is often challenged in practice due to the noise and its oscillating character. In this paper, the authors further developed and tested one of the new technologies related to under-frequency load shedding (UFLS) protection. Since the basic idea was to enhance the selected technology’s readiness level, a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setup with an RTDS was assembled. The under-frequency technology was implemented in an intelligent electronic device (IED) and included in the HIL setup. The IED acted as one of several protection devices, representing a last-resort system protection scheme. All main contributions of this research deal with using RoCoF in an innovative UFLS scheme under test: (i) appropriate selection and parameterization of RoCoF filtering techniques does not worsen under-frequency load shedding during fast-occurring events, (ii) locally measured RoCoF can be effectively used for bringing a high level of flexibility to a system-wide scheme, and (iii) diversity of relays and RoCoF -measuring techniques is an advantage, not a drawback.

Keywords: under-frequency load shedding; intelligent electronic device; proof of concept; hardware-in-the-loop testing; real-time digital simulator; frequency stability margin; rate-of-change-of-frequency (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: 2020
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