This paper presents a load frequency control scheme using electric vehicles (EVs) to help thermal turbine units to provide the stability fluctuated by load demands. First, a general framework for deriving a state-space model for general power system topologies is given. Then, a detailed model of a four-area power system incorporating a smart and renewable discharged EVs system is presented. The areas within the system are interconnected via a combination of alternating current/high voltage direct current links and thyristor controlled phase shifters. Based on some recent development on functional observers, novel distributed functional observers are designed, one at each local area, to implement any given global state feedback controller. The designed observers are of reduced order and dynamically decoupled from others in contrast to conventional centralized observer (CO)-based controllers. The proposed scheme can cope better against accidental failures than those CO-based controllers. Extensive simulations and comparisons are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Index Terms-Distributed functional observers (DFOs), high voltage direct current links, linear functional observers (LFOs), load frequency control (LFC), state observers, thyristor controlled phase shifters (TCPSs), vehicle-to-grid (V2G). NOMENCLATURE LFC Load frequency control. EV Electric vehicle. AC Alternating current. HVDC High voltage direct current. TCPS Thyristor controlled phase shifter. FACT Flexible alternating current transmission. BESS Battery energy storage system. V2G Vehicle-to-grid. LRO Luenberger reduced-order observer. LFO Linear functional observer. CFO Centralized functional observer. CO Centralized observer.