Frequency Regulation in Multi Area Power System Optimized By Firefly Swarm Hybridization Algorithm

Abstract

Automatic Generation Control of two area multi unit interconnected thermal power system with dynamic participation of Doubly Fed Induction Generator based on the wind turbines. In this work two areas consisting of three unequal turbines both areas are connected to the DFIG based wind turbine. Area 1 consisting of three reheat turbines with Doubly Fed Induction Generator based on wind turbine and area2 consisting of three non reheat turbines with Doubly Fed Induction Generator based on wind turbine and two areas interconnected by tie line. Two different controllers are used, namely PID and cascaded PD-PI controllers. The controllers effectively tuned by hybridization algorithm. 1% step load disturbance is applied in area 1 for analyzing the dynamic performance. The performance of two area multi-unit power system is done in MATLAB/SIMILINK software. The dynamic response of the considered system is compared in terms of undershoots, overshoot and settling times