C. Möhrlen, Diarmuid Ó Foghlú, Séamus Power, G. Nolan, K. Conway, Eric Lambert, J. Ging
{"title":"EirGrid's Met Mast and Alternatives Study","authors":"C. Möhrlen, Diarmuid Ó Foghlú, Séamus Power, G. Nolan, K. Conway, Eric Lambert, J. Ging","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1387","url":null,"abstract":"The current grid code in Ireland requires wind farms to deliver meteorological data to the two transmission system operators, EirGrid and SONI. For wind farms greater than 10 MW in size it is obligatory to submit four meteorological data signals: wind speed, wind direction, air temperature and air pressure. The data is collected within EirGrid and SONI and thereafter used in the wind power forecast process. The wind speed signal is the most important variable as it helps in the detection of high-speed shut down events. The importance of accurate on-site measured wind speed signals increases as a function of the installed wind capacity. Since wind farms have been installed with varying technologies over the past 20 years, the system does not have a single point of failure. The lack of uniformity has been found to be both a handling challenge and reliability strength. In order to investigate the future compatibility of the current quality of met data and to verify, whether and which types of new technology may be an acceptable source of meteorological data to be delivered to the TSOs, a study has been carried out. The study verified whether the quality of meteorological data is sufficient and reliable enough for the 2030 penetration targets set by the Irish government. This paper will describe the methods used to verify the quality of meteorological data signals, along with the various types of meteorological measurements that were found to be acceptable under varying conditions. We will also present a number of recommendations based on the findings of the study, and discuss how these recommendations are being implemented by EirGrid.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131998274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast Frequency Response Provision from Commercial Demand Response, from Scheduling to Stability in Power Systems","authors":"M. S. Misaghian, C. O’Dwyer, D. Flynn","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1366","url":null,"abstract":"Reducing numbers of online conventional generators, due to increasing shares of renewable energy sources, are in-creasing the requirement for a fast frequency response from reserve providers when a large infeed/outfeed trips. The commercial demand side sector, considering its size (MW/MWh) and existing communication and control infrastructure, makes it a potential source of flexibility. Here, in particular, the provision of reserve from supermarket refrigeration sys-tems is presented, whereby a sufficiently large and diverse fleet of supermarkets are simulated and aggregated to system level. The all-island power system of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland, with a horizon of 2030, is considered as a representative study system. The impact of utilising supermarket refrigeration systems as demand response providers (as part of system scheduling), and the (maximum) rate of change of frequency following system disturbances (as part of frequency stability analysis), are investigated. Three distinct frequency control methods are provided showing that supermarkets are capable of fast frequency response services to the grid, considering their high power and energy density.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133109345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Hosseini, J. Toubeau, N. Singh, J. D. De Kooning, N. Kayedpour, G. Crevecoeur, Z. De Grève, .. Vallée, L. Vandevelde
{"title":"IMPACT OF FAST WIND FLUCTUATIONS ON THE PROFIT OF A WIND POWER PRODUCER JOINTLY TRADING IN ENERGY AND RESERVE MARKETS","authors":"S. Hosseini, J. Toubeau, N. Singh, J. D. De Kooning, N. Kayedpour, G. Crevecoeur, Z. De Grève, .. Vallée, L. Vandevelde","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1386","url":null,"abstract":"In light of the latest technological achievements in wind farm control, wind power producers (WPPs) are motivated to participate in the joint day-ahead energy and reserve market (JERM) so as to obtain additional revenue by offering ancillary services. However, their expected profit is potentially affected by fast fluctuations of the available wind power in real-time, which may prevent them to deliver the capacity offered at the day-ahead stage. In order to evaluate this impact, a stochastic framework aiming at maximizing the WPP's profit in the day-ahead JERM, based on hourly mean wind power forecasts, is firstly developed. Once the optimal bids are obtained, an empirical ex-post analysis is performed to assess the impact of actual wind speed fluctuations on the WPP's profit. Accordingly, the resulting revenue streams from the different market floors are separately compared to their related expected values, so as to determine the losses regarding the inability of both reserve capacity procurement and activation as well as deviations from the scheduled energy. The outcomes confirm that wind speed fluctuations have a significant impact on the WPP's ability to deliver the scheduled reserve, thus negatively impacting its actual profit.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116043869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Liu, Q. Hong, A. Dyśko, A. Egea Àlvarez, L. Xu, C. Booth, I. Cowan, B. Ponnalagan
{"title":"A FLEXIBLE REAL TIME NETWORK MODEL FOR EVALUATING HVDC SYSTEMS' IMPACT ON AC PROTECTION PERFORMANCE","authors":"D. Liu, Q. Hong, A. Dyśko, A. Egea Àlvarez, L. Xu, C. Booth, I. Cowan, B. Ponnalagan","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1372","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a reduced but reprehensive real time network model constructed in RSCAD for RTDS to evaluate the impact of HVDC systems and Non-Synchronous Generation (NSG) on the protection performance in the AC grid. The proposed network model could be flexibly configured to evaluate key factors that could affect the protection performance, including the level of system strength, different control strategies adopted in the HVDC system, different levels of synchronous compensation installed at the HVDC site, etc. The developed network model contains a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)-based HVDC system, a NSG unit representing the converter-interfaced generation and a Synchronous Condenser (SC) representing the level of synchronous compensation. A flexible controller is designed for the HVDC system to realise various typically used control strategies, including balanced current control, constant active power control and constant reactive power control, and inject a desired level of the negative sequence current as required. The NSG employs the widely-adopted PQ control strategy. Three typical controllers, comprising the Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR), constant reactive power and droop controller, are implemented for the SC to realistically emulate the SC behaviour under different control modes. Case studies on the application of the model for testing distance protection performance are presented. The developed model is suitable for both pure simulation-based studies and also hardware-in-the-loop test when connected to an external physical relay, thus providing an ideal testing platform for identifying the potential critical protection issues and the potential solutions in future power networks with high penetration of renewables.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117012984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Di Liu, Q. Hong, A. Dyśko, D. Tzelepis, Guangya Yang, C. Booth, I. Cowan, B. Ponnalagan
{"title":"IMPACT OF SYSTEM STRENGTH AND HVDC CONTROL STRATEGIES ON DISTANCE PROTECTION PERFORMANCE","authors":"Di Liu, Q. Hong, A. Dyśko, D. Tzelepis, Guangya Yang, C. Booth, I. Cowan, B. Ponnalagan","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1368","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents comprehensive studies and tests for evaluating the impact of reduced system strength and different control strategies used by HVDC systems on the performance of distance protection. A Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) test setup is established to enable realistic testing of physical relays being used in the system, where simulated voltage and current waveforms are injected into the distance protection relay via an analogue amplifier, and the relay tripping signal is fed back to simulation and recorded for protection performance analysis. In the simulation, a reduced but representative transmission network model, which includes a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) based HVDC system, a synchronous condenser (SC), and a two-level converter representing non-synchronous generation (NSG), is developed in RSCAD for the RTDS simulator. The model can be flexibly configured to reflect different levels of system strength and synchronous compensation applied at the HVDC site. The HVDC system is implemented with a flexible controller, which can replicate typically used control strategies during faults (e.g. balanced current mode to eliminate negative sequence current, and constant active and reactive power modes to suppress the oscillations on the active and reactive power respectively), allowing the user to inject different levels of negative sequence current. From the studies, it was found that with decreased system strength, the impact of the HVDC system on the distance protection becomes apparent, i.e. protection performance could be compromised with delayed operation, and such impact, to some extent, is subject to the control strategies applied in the HVDC system. It was also observed that the installation of SC could facilitate the protection response, and such support is dependent on the SC capacity.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125413671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOWARDS IMPOSING DAYPARTED RESTRICTIONS ON TOKENISED ENERGY WITHIN PEER-TO-PEER MARKETS","authors":"A. de Villiers, P. Cuffe","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1346","url":null,"abstract":"This piece proposes a novel mechanism for peer-to-peer electricity trading whereby energy tokens can only be redeemed in the same part of the day as when they were generated. The aim of this regulatory mechanism is to reduce token hoarding by consumers to better align the physical production and consumption of electricity, which in turn could decrease electrical system losses and minimise the chance of grid imbalances. To establish the effectiveness of this dayparting mechanism a market simulation is performed. This simulation is made up of 24 consumers and five producers profiles over a seven-day week. An optimisation is performed to most effectively allocate energy tokens from producers to consumers, aiming to minimise the total energy imported from the larger grid i.e. to make most effective use of local generation. Consumers are permitted to perform a measure of demand response by modulating their demand at certain points while keeping their total energy consumption constant. Allocated energy tokens can be consumed immediately, or during any subsequent daypart to the same type. A series of power flow analyses are performed using the market simulation out-turns to establish the electrical system effects. Consumers are found to move some demand to weekend days when demand is lower but generation is equally abundant. Electrical results reveal a decrease in system losses, as well as less fluctuation from the larger grid supply.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129486148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Asif Uddin Khan, Q. Hong, Di Liu, A. E. Álvarez, A. Dyśko, C. Booth, Djaved Rostom
{"title":"Comparative Evaluation of Dynamic Performance of a Virtual Synchronous Machine and Synchronous Machines","authors":"Md Asif Uddin Khan, Q. Hong, Di Liu, A. E. Álvarez, A. Dyśko, C. Booth, Djaved Rostom","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1362","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing penetration of converter-interfaced renewable generation has led to significant operational challenges for power systems. Such challenges are mainly caused by the different capabilities and dynamic responses of the converters compared with synchronous machines, e.g. converters do not naturally provide inertia to the system and contribute limited fault level with very different fault characteristics. Virtual Synchronous Machines (VSMs) and Synchronous Condensers (SCs) are both considered as promising solutions to address the challenges in operating converter-dominated power systems. This paper presents comprehensive studies for evaluating and comparing the dynamic performance of VSM, SC and Synchronous Generators (SGs), under a range of grid contingency events, which include short circuit faults, frequency disturbances, voltage depression, etc. The studies aim to offer insights on the level of support VSMs can offer to the system as compared with SCs and SGs, and their advantages, potential issues and limitations that need to be considered for a wider application in the system. From the studies, it is found that the VSM can successfully ride through a voltage depression of 0.1 pu for 140 ms as part of the stability path-finder requirements of fault ride through. Furthermore, the VSM unit can have a comparable performance with SC and SG from the perspective of provision of inertial response. However, in terms of voltage step simulation, reactive power injection from the VSM is very low compared to SC and SG and the fault current characteristic of the VSM is controller depended and cannot inject high fault currents like SC and SG.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124277157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REAL-TIME MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER TO SUPPORT THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OPERATION","authors":"A. A. Mohamed, D. Morrow, R. Best","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1356","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a model predictive control technique to optimally dispatch of battery energy storage systems (BESS) installed on the medium voltage distribution network to manage the violations in addition to enhancing the power quality and stability. A two-phase strategy is developed to manage the BESS inverter power on the four active/reactive power quadrants. A multiobjective function is formulated in order to optimize the system voltage, power factor and line losses. The uncertainties associated with demand and generation forecasting are considered in the proposed strategy by introducing a real-time operational phase. The network, BESS, and inverter technical constraints are considered, and the proposed strategy is validated by simulating different scenarios on an 11 kV, 53-node distribution network located in Northern Ireland.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116876936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Alotaibi, A. Darwish, Xiandong Ma, Barry W. Williams
{"title":"A new modular three-phase inverter based on sepic-cuk combination converter for photovoltaic applications","authors":"S. Alotaibi, A. Darwish, Xiandong Ma, Barry W. Williams","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1407","url":null,"abstract":"new modular dc/ac inverter based on a dual-winding isolated SEPIC/Cuk converter for medium and high power Photovoltaic (PV) applications is introduced. In this system, several current-source submodules (SMs) are connected in series to allow for additional voltage boosting. Each SM is designed as a combination of SEPIC/CUK converter to offer a flexible output range and continuous currents with small ripple at input and output sides. Furthermore, the SMs structure can generate different output voltage polarities. The main purpose of employing small-size highfrequency transformers are to (1) provide galvanic isolation, (2) eliminate PV grounding problems, (3) achieve minimum electromagnetic interference (EMI). The paper presents a description of the proposed topology and investigate its reliability performance in a PV grid-tied system using MATLAB simulations. An experimental prototype has been used and controlled by TMS32028335 DSP, as a proof of concept.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121610502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MAXIMIZING THE PROFITS OF BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS IN THE INTEGRATED SINGLE ELECTRICITY MARKET","authors":"A. A. Raouf Mohamed, D. John Morrow, R. Best","doi":"10.1049/icp.2021.1344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1344","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the profitability of deploying battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the modern grid. An optimization tool to maximize revenue from the participation in the Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) in the island of Ireland is proposed. Real market dataset is used to determine the optimal market participation factors to maximize the returns using bilevel optimization algorithm. The participation in multiple services is explored and highlighted, and the running costs of the BESS are clarified and quantified. The main objective of this paper is to enumerate the financial benefits and opportunities for grid-scale BESS in the island of Ireland. Case studies proved the efficacy of the proposed approach in maximizing the revenue.","PeriodicalId":223615,"journal":{"name":"The 9th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG Dublin Online 2021)","volume":"2021 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129185427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}