Modernizing the Algorithm of a Virtual Synchronous Generator for Controlling the Energy Storage System in a Microgrid

  • Aleksey A. SUVOROV
  • Pavel V. ILYUSHIN
Keywords: electric energy storage system, virtual synchronous generator, frequency control, microgrid, charge level

Abstract

Frequency control is one of the most important problems for electric power systems and is regulated by various national standards and codes. In view of the ongoing introduction of inertialess generating units based on power converters (that are mainly renewable energy sources (RES)) into modern power systems, this problem becomes more complex in nature and involves the need to take into account additional factors related to stochastic power generation by RES, reduction of the overall inertia in the power system, etc. This feature manifests itself most acutely in microgrids, which are characterized by significant frequency variations. An effective way to solve such a problem is the use of energy storage systems (ESS) connected to a grid-forming inverter. The article presents a modernized structure of the control algorithm based on a virtual synchronous generator controlled by a current reference signal (CC-VSG), oscillations in which are damped using a feed-forward control. A PI controller is also incorporated into the modernized СС-VSG structure to monitor the ESS charging level. By using an analysis in the frequency domain for a linearized model that reflects the active power and frequency variation processes in the microgrid, it is shown that the loops producing the inertial response, frequency control, and ESS charge recovery, implemented in the developed СС-VSG algorithm, operate independently from each other. It is also shown that with a VSG constructed in accordance with the conventional structure, a need arises to find a tradeoff between the frequency control quality and charge recovery, which inevitably entails the need to increase the ESS nominal energy capacity. For tuning the modernized CC-VSG algorithm, a procedure has been developed, which is based on separation of the bandwidths of different loops. By using this procedure, the desired frequency control quality in the microgrid is achieved at the minimum possible size of the ESS with taking into account of charge level recovery and permissible frequency variation limits. To confirm the obtained results, mathematical simulation in the time domain has been performed in the PSCAD/EMTDC environment.

Author Biographies

Aleksey A. SUVOROV

(Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia) – Docent of the Division for Power and Electrical Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Docent.

Pavel V. ILYUSHIN

(Energy Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) – Head of the Center for Intelligent Electric Power Systems and Distributed Energy, Dr. Sci. (Eng.)

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The study was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 24-29-00004
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