A review of control methods for providing frequency response in VSC-HVDC transmission systems

Yu, Mengran and Dysko, Adam and Booth, Campbell and Roscoe, Andrew and Zhu, Jiebei; (2014) A review of control methods for providing frequency response in VSC-HVDC transmission systems. In: 2014 49th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). IEEE, ROM. ISBN 978-1-4799-6556-4 (https://doi.org/10.1109/UPEC.2014.6934693)

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Abstract

With the ultimate aim to remove/reduce constraints on the amount of non-synchronous generators that may be connected to power systems, this paper identifies potential problems associated with system dynamics under high penetrations of converter-interfaced sources, especially from the perspective of inertia and responses to disturbances. The configuration of VSC-HVDC transmission systems and their controllers is introduced and analysed. Methods that have been proposed to enable VSC-HVDC systems to provide frequency response are reviewed, and a typical VSC-HVDC system with an associated control system is built and validated in Matlab Simulink. These models will form a key part of a modelling toolkit that is being developed to investigate optimal methods for reducing (or removing) future Non-Synchronous Generation (NSG) penetration constraints in the power system in the UK, which represents further work that will be conducted in this project.

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Yu, Mengran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9014-569X, Dysko, Adam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-7566, Booth, Campbell ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3869-4477, Roscoe, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1108-4265 and Zhu, Jiebei;
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