A Local Control Strategy for Voltage Fluctuation Suppression in a Flexible Interconnected Distribution Station Area Based on Soft Open Point

Abstract

Fluctuations in the output power of a high penetration distributed generation (DG) will result in severe voltage fluctuations/violations in the power distribution station area (DSA). This paper proposes the use of Soft Open Point (SOP) for DSA interconnection to alleviate voltage violations and frequent fluctuations. Firstly, the typical topology of a flexible interconnected DSA is introduced, and then the correlation between active/reactive power fluctuations and voltage fluctuations in DSA is analyzed, according to which a local control strategy is proposed to achieve voltage control by relying only on the local electrical information of the nodes connected to the SOP. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by simulation case. The simulation results show that the voltage fluctuation caused by the DG output power fluctuation can be suppressed within tens of milliseconds through the control strategy. This strategy greatly reduces the communication burden and has good real-time performance. It can be used as an SOP control strategy under conditions of communication failure or to realize a plug-and-play SOP, which has significant engineering importance for solving the voltage violations and frequent fluctuations in DSA and improving the consumption capacity of DGs.