Stability Improvement of a Multimachine Power System Connected with a

Large-Scale Hybrid Wind -Photovoltaic Farm Using a Supercapacitor

Abstract -- This paper presents the stability improvement of a multimachine

power system connected with a large-scale hybrid wind-photovoltaic (PV) farm
using an energy-storage unit based on supercapacitor (SC). The operating
characteristics of the hybrid wind-PV farm are simulated by an equivalent
aggregated 300-MW wind-turbine generator (WTG) based on permanent-magnet
synchronous generator and an equivalent aggregated 75-MW PV array. The WTG
and the PV array are connected to a common dc link through a voltage-source
converter and a dc/dc boost converter, respectively. The power of the common dc
link is transferred to the multimachine power system through a voltage-source
inverter, step-up transformers, and a connection line. The SC-based energy-storage
unit, which is integrated into the common dc link through a bidirectional dc/dc
converter, is employed for smoothing out the power fluctuations due to variations
of wind speed and/or solar irradiance. A PID supplementary damping controller
(PID-SDC) is designed for the bidirectional dc/dc converter of the SC to enhance
the damping characteristics of the low-frequency oscillations associated with the
studied multimachine power system. The root loci of the studied system are
examined under wide ranges of wind speed and solar irradiance. The effectiveness
of the proposed SC joined with the PID-SDC on improving the performance of the
studied system under different disturbance conditions is also demonstrated using
time-domain simulations.

CONCLUSION

In this paper, the stability analysis results of a multimachine power system

connected with a 375-MW hybrid wind-PV farm have been presented. An SC-
based energy-storage unit has been utilized for smoothing out the power
fluctuations that caused by the variations of wind speed and/or solar irradiance. A
PID-SDC has been designed for the bidirectional dc/dc converter of the SC to
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improve the damping characteristics of the low-frequency oscillations related to
the SGs of studied multimachine power system. The small-signal stability of the
studied system has been examined under the wide ranges of the operating
conditions using root-loci analysis.

SOFTWARE :
 MATLAB
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