Self-Adaptive Secondary Frequency Regulation Strategy of Micro-Grid With Multiple Virtual Synchronous Generators

Abstract

With the penetration rate of distributed generator and distributed energy storage growing, the frequency stability of microgrid (MG) is severely affected. In this paper, a self-adaptive secondary frequency regulation (FR) strategy based on virtual synchronous generator (VSG) for a microgrid containing wind turbine, photovoltaic array, and electric vehicle (EV) cluster is proposed. First, modified VSG control is applied to renewable energy units and EV cluster, where nonerror frequency regulation is realized by introducing proportional-integral control into power-frequency controller of VSGs. Secondly, the FR reserve capacity of wind turbine, photovoltaic array, and EV are predicted in real time through their respective characteristics. Then, a self-adaptive adjustment strategy for secondary FR parameters of VSGs is designed to control the FR power of VSGs according to real-time predicted FR capacity. Finally, the coordinated FR strategy of VSGs and conventional unit is proposed considering the situation of insufficient FR capacity of VSGs. Through the analysis of simulation results, the reasonability and validity of proposed self-adaptive FR strategy for multiple VSGs have been verified.