Email this article Improving The Performance of PV- STATCOM for Power Oscillation Damping
Abstract
This paper presents a novel control of PV solar system as a FACTS device STATCOM, termed PV-STATCOM, for power oscillation damping (POD) in transmission systems. In the proposed control, as soon as power oscillations due to a system disturbance are detected, the solar farm discontinues its real power generation function very briefly (few tens of seconds) and makes its entire inverter capacity available to operate as a STATCOM for POD. As soon as power oscillations are damped, the solar farm restores real power output to its pre-disturbance level in a ramped manner, while keeping the damping function activated. This results in much faster restoration than that specified in grid codes. During nighttime, the solar farm performs POD with its entire inverter capacity. It is shown from MATLAB simulations that the proposed control provides significant increase in power transfer capacity on a 24/7 basis in systems which exhibit both local inertial and inter-area oscillatory modes. The proposed PV-STATCOM is about 50-100 times cheaper than an equivalent STATCOM for providing POD at the same location. This novel control can potentially bring large savings for transmission utilities and open up a new revenue making opportunity for solar farms for providing POD. Fuzzy logic control is used in this paper for the better regulation of pv-statcom. The results analyzed through MATLAB/SIMULINK environment.
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