Abstract
The frequency regulation service (FRS) is playing an increasingly important role in maintaining the power balance between generation and consumption. Moreover, the recent progress in information and communication technologies has enabled residential customers to participate in FRS through direct control over appliances, such as inverter air conditioners (ACs), whose market share is growing rapidly and has made up a large fraction of electricity consumption. Inverter ACs can change compressor's speed continuously to adjust operating power and provide FRS for the system operation. In this paper, the thermal model of a room and the electrical model of an inverter AC for providing FRS are developed. The model of the inverter AC is equivalent to a generator. In this manner, the aggregation of inverter ACs can be controlled just as traditional generators. Besides, a stochastic allocation method of the regulation sequence among inverter ACs is proposed to reduce the effect of FRS on customers. A hybrid control strategy by taking into account the dead band control and the hysteresis control is also developed to reduce the frequency fluctuations of power systems. The effectiveness of the proposed models and control strategies is illustrated in the numerical studies.
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