One of the important features of low-carbon electric power system is the massive deployment of renewable energy resources in the advent of a new carbon-strained economy.Wind generation is a major technology of generat...One of the important features of low-carbon electric power system is the massive deployment of renewable energy resources in the advent of a new carbon-strained economy.Wind generation is a major technology of generating electric power with zero carbon dioxide emission.In a power system with the high penetration of wind generation,the displacement of conventional synchronous generators with variable speed wind turbines reduces system inertia.This leads to larger system frequency deviation following a loss of large generation.In this paper,the impact of the reduction of system inertia on system frequency is analyzed as the result of the integration of a significant amount of wind generation into power systems.Furthermore,we present a preliminary study of the impact of the distribution of the inertia contributions from those online conventional synchronous generators on the rate of change of frequency(ROCOF)based on the total energy injected into the system due to the fault.The total fault energy is represented using Hamiltonian formulism.With the IEEE 39-bus system,it is shown that for a fault with the given injected total energy,clearing time,and location,the distribution of inertia contributions can significantly affect the magnitude of ROCOF.Moreover,for such a fault with different locations,the average of the magnitudes of ROCOF caused by the fault at different locations is larger when the distribution of the inertia contributions is more dispersed.展开更多
文摘One of the important features of low-carbon electric power system is the massive deployment of renewable energy resources in the advent of a new carbon-strained economy.Wind generation is a major technology of generating electric power with zero carbon dioxide emission.In a power system with the high penetration of wind generation,the displacement of conventional synchronous generators with variable speed wind turbines reduces system inertia.This leads to larger system frequency deviation following a loss of large generation.In this paper,the impact of the reduction of system inertia on system frequency is analyzed as the result of the integration of a significant amount of wind generation into power systems.Furthermore,we present a preliminary study of the impact of the distribution of the inertia contributions from those online conventional synchronous generators on the rate of change of frequency(ROCOF)based on the total energy injected into the system due to the fault.The total fault energy is represented using Hamiltonian formulism.With the IEEE 39-bus system,it is shown that for a fault with the given injected total energy,clearing time,and location,the distribution of inertia contributions can significantly affect the magnitude of ROCOF.Moreover,for such a fault with different locations,the average of the magnitudes of ROCOF caused by the fault at different locations is larger when the distribution of the inertia contributions is more dispersed.
