A proposed wide-area stabilization system through a large-scale fleet of electric vehicles for grid

Rodney Itiki, Fernando Libonati, Hernán Burgués, Matias Martini, Somasundaram Essakiappan, Madhav Manjrekar, Linquan Bai, Silvio Giuseppe Di Santo

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Abstract

A wide-area grid is a large-scale high voltage power system with regional grids integrated by transmission lines. This work proposes a Wide-Area Stabilization System (WASS) with Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) sensors and battery converters to mitigate transients in inter-area transmission lines caused by an (N-1) event of line trip. PMU is a measuring device capable of monitoring high voltage buses' magnitude and phase angle in a power grid on a time scale synchronized with a global reference clock. The outreaching time synchronization allows wide-area monitoring of the state of the power system and electrical protection. Three PMU-WASS are modeled on an IEEE 68-buses system and simulated using the YVI Photon++ platform for power system dynamic studies. The results show that the proposed WASS with energy storage avoids the system collapse after line tripping. This research reveals that strict requirements for electrical power converters bring systemic benefits and may be needed ahead of the future large-scale worldwide expansion of electric vehicles fleet.

Original languageEnglish
Article number108164
JournalInternational Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
Volume141
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The authors thank the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) of the, the Laboratory of Power System Protection and Automation of the University of São Paulo, and the YVI Labs, for the Photon++ license and support. The authors also thank the peer-reviewers of this journal for their valuable comments, which helped the authors to improve even more the quality of this paper.

FundersFunder number
YVI Labs
Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Universidade de São Paulo

    Keywords

    • Phasor measurement unit
    • Power system dynamic stability
    • Vehicle-for-grid (V4G)
    • Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)
    • Wide-area stabilization

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