Optimal Voltage Control of Wind Farm with Distributed Energy Storage System

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes an optimal voltage control method for a wind farm (WF) combined with distributed energy storage systems (DESSs), where the DESSs are connected to the DC sides of wind turbines (WTs). In the proposed control method, the WT units and DESSs can be coordinated to minimize the voltage fluctuation of terminal buses, minimize the distance between the voltage of terminal buses and rated value, and minimize power losses inside the WF collection system. The optimal control (OPC)-based voltage control model is formulated to generate optimal active/reactive power output of WTs and active power output of energy storage units in the WF with DESSs. The DESSs can store active power from WTs to support more capacity of the reactive power output of WTs. The control performance of the proposed voltage control method based on OPC is validated by conducting case studies on the WF with 32*5 MW WTs.