Voltage Stability Constrained Unit Commitment in Power Systems With High Penetration of Inverter-Based Generators

Abstract

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, power system operation has to be adapted to ensure the system stability and security while considering the distinguished feature of the Inverter-Based Generator (IBG) interfaced generators. The static voltage stability which is mainly compromised by heavy loading conditions in conventional power systems, faces new challenges due to the large scale integration of IBG units. This paper investigates the static voltage stability problem in high IBG-penetrated system. The analytic criterion that ensures the voltage stability at the IBG buses are derived with the interaction of different IBGs being considered. Based on this, an optimal system scheduling model is proposed to minimize the overall system operation cost while maintaining the voltage stability during normal operation through dynamically optimizing the active and reactive power output from IBGs. The highly nonlinear voltage stability constraints are effectively converted into Second-Order Cone (SOC) form, leading to an overall Mixed-Integer SOC Programming (MISOCP), together with the SOC reformulation of AC power flow and frequency constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed model and the impact of various factors on voltage stability are demonstrated in thorough case studies.