Aggregated Model of Virtual Power Plants for Transient Frequency and Voltage Stability Analysis

Abstract

The Virtual Power Plant (VPP) has been proposed to aggregate Distributed Generations (DGs) to act like a single power plant, thus, also has functions on the frequency and voltage support. The previous models of the VPP are static and focus on the energy trading and management. For the system transient response analysis, a dynamic VPP model must be needed. The paper proposes a reduced-order yet accurate aggregated model to represent VPP transients for the stability analysis of power systems. The goal is to provide a model that is adequate for system studies and can serve to the Transmission System Operator (TSO) to evaluate the impact of VPPs on the overall grid. The proposed model can accommodate the transient response of the most relevant controllers included in the distributed generators that compose the VPP. Using a comparison with a real-time detailed Electro-Magnetic Transients (EMT) models of the VPP confirms the validity of the proposed aggregated model. The case studies based on the IEEE 39-bus system verifies the accuracy of the proposed aggregated model on the system stability analysis.

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