Control of Low-Frequency Oscillation on Electrical Power System Under Large EV-Charging Station Installation Using PSO Technique for Turning PSS Parameters

Abstract

This paper presents a low-frequency oscillation compensation in an electrical power system connecting large-scale electric vehicle loads (EVs). The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method has been adapted to adjust the control parameters of the generator under Power System Stabilizer (PSS) parameters. The EVs charging stations have been directly installed to the power grid for the battery charging process of the EVs according to the increasing number of EVs. The DC fast charging of the large scale EVs has been significantly affected by the low-frequency oscillation of the grids that have been considered in terms of power system stability margin. This paper has aimed to solve the methodology for turning the PSS parameters by adapting the PSO via MATLAB® and DIgSILENT®. The PSS could control the low-frequency oscillation in the proposed power grids. The simulation system has selected the 6-bus testing system, which has increased the EVs loads by 50, 100, 150, 200, and 300 percentages at bus No. B3. The simulation results have indicated that the rotor low-frequency oscillation could control instability region. Therefore, the proposed PSS controller turning could handle the power system swing and adjust the power system stability. In this condition, the proposed PSO method should have been explicitly used for low-frequency swing control of the generator's rotor into a balanced state under the large-scale EVs penetration level.