Development of event-based centralized excitation control method of synchronous generators for improving the transient stability

Abstract

Maintenance of transient stability is important for the stable operation of power systems. However, as a large amount of renewable energy sources are concerned that the transient stability deteriorates. Excitation control systems have been widely used to improve the transient stability. The defect is that only the synchronous generator (SG) near the fault location changes the excitation voltage so much immediately after the fault. In this study, we propose a novel excitation control method based on an event-based wide-area emergency control system. In this method, the SGs that are distant from the fault location play a role to mitigate the first swing as well as the SGs near the fault. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified demonstrated by numerical simulation for a multi-machine test system