ESTIMATION OF DISTURBANCE SIZE AND FREQUENCY INDICATORS IN RE-INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEMS

Grid Integration Lab (GIL) at IIT Bombay has developed an easy-to-implement analytical method to estimate disturbance size in a RE-dominant power system following a contingency, which can be used to predict frequency nadir.

The displacement of conventional generation by RE-Based Resources poses critical challenges to the frequency stability of the power systems. Such systems that provide little or no inertia results in a high Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF) and deteriorated frequency nadir/zenith following the disturbances. Prediction of frequency metrics, such as frequency nadir and RoCoF, immediately after disturbances will help grid operators take preventive/corrective actions to ensure secure and stable grid operation.

The proposed method uses active power measurements from a limited number of monitoring nodes and an adaptive bus admittance matrix for the disturbance size estimation. The estimated disturbance size is then used to predict frequency nadir using an ANN-based method.

Some of the findings from this work are due to be published in ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฌ๐‘ฌ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ป๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’๐’ ๐‘ท๐’๐’˜๐’†๐’“ ๐‘บ๐’š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’Ž๐’” and can currently be read as an Early Access article from the below-given link.

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