Unreasonable reactive power flow of traditional SVC and a novel SVC model against it

Abstract

Recent years, various types of reactive power resources are installed in the power grid. Both of the complexity of and demand for better voltage regulation are increasing. AVC system is the most famous system-wide Q/V control system which consists of PVC, SVC and TVC. SVC controls the voltages of buses within a control zone by sending individual set-point values to PVCs belonging to the control zone. Traditional SVC assumes that PVCs within a control zone is decoupled and each PVC can reach the set-point value during a control period. However, the proof in this paper reveals the fact that if there are strongly coupled PVCs in a control zone, the competition between those PVCs will cause unreasonable reactive power flow. PVCs can’t reach their set-points so a deviation of Q output is induced. In this paper, a novel SVC model is proposed so as to eliminate the Q deviation. Simulation work verified the proof and demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed SVC model.