High-voltage direct current (HVDC) blocking disturbance leads to large power losses in the receiving-end power grid, and the event-driven emergency frequency control (EFC) is an important measure to prevent large frequency deviation. By aggregating controllable distributed energy resources (DERs) on the demand side, a virtual power plant (VPP) could quickly reduce its power and can be a new fast response resource for EFC. Considering both the VPP and the traditional control resources, this paper proposes an optimized EFC strategy coordinating multiple resources for the receiving-end power grid with multi-infeed HVDC. The approximate aggregation model of the VPP response process is constructed, based on which the EFC strategy, aiming at minimizing the total control cost while meeting constraints on rotor angle stability and frequency deviation security, is proposed. The electromechanical transient simulation combined with particle swarm optimization (PSO) is utilized to solve the model, and parallel computation is utilized to accelerate the solving process. The effectiveness of the proposed EFC strategy is verified by a provincial receiving-end power grid with multi-infeed HVDC. The detailed simulation results show that VPP could dramatically reduce the control cost of EFC while maintaining the same stability margin.
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