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When modelling islanded grids, the ReferenceBus component sets the reference voltage during initialization and provides slack active and reactive power if generation, consumption, and losses are not perfectly balanced. The idea is of course to get this slack power as close as possible to zero, but this requires to perform iterations in which generation or consumption are changed until the slack power is small enough to be acceptable.
One way to avoid this is to connect the reference bus to a generator, so that the excess slack power can be provided by the attached generator, bringing it to zero in just one iteration. However, this still requires a manual iteration. An even better solution in this case would be to automatically adapt the generator inputs (or the generator control system set points) so that the slack power becomes exactly zero.
With the modifications discussed in #132, this is already what happens in the EPF, as the reference bus is turned into a regular bus (thus zero slack power) and the attached generator is converted into a slack bus, so it provides exactly the power required to balance the system. It would be nice to get the same behaviour also for the dynamic model.
This can be achieved by adding a balanceReferenceBus Boolean parameter to the initialization parameters of the System object. When that parameter is set to true, two additional equations will be activated in the ReferenceBus, setting PSlack = 0 and QSlack = 0. Of course this requires to free two parameters in the generator that acts as slack node, i.e., the one that has slackPF = true, see #132:
if the initialization mode is globalSteadyStateFixedSetPoints, this will require to put FreeOffset blocks in the generator inputs or generator controller set points, so that they can be adapted to balance the grid without slack power in the ReferenceBus
if the initialization mode is globalSteadyStateFixedPowerFlow, then the given power flow for the generator with slackPF = true will be ignored and replaced by the computed values that balance the grid
If the initialization mode is localSteadyStateFixedPowerFlow then the ReferenceBus already has PSlack = 0 and QSlack = 0, so it doesn't make sense to turn on balanceReferenceBus in this case.
@ceraolo, once we have sorted out #132, this feature is trivial to implement, as it involves a few lines of code, so we can add it to 2.0.0 without problems.
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When modelling islanded grids, the ReferenceBus component sets the reference voltage during initialization and provides slack active and reactive power if generation, consumption, and losses are not perfectly balanced. The idea is of course to get this slack power as close as possible to zero, but this requires to perform iterations in which generation or consumption are changed until the slack power is small enough to be acceptable.
One way to avoid this is to connect the reference bus to a generator, so that the excess slack power can be provided by the attached generator, bringing it to zero in just one iteration. However, this still requires a manual iteration. An even better solution in this case would be to automatically adapt the generator inputs (or the generator control system set points) so that the slack power becomes exactly zero.
With the modifications discussed in #132, this is already what happens in the EPF, as the reference bus is turned into a regular bus (thus zero slack power) and the attached generator is converted into a slack bus, so it provides exactly the power required to balance the system. It would be nice to get the same behaviour also for the dynamic model.
This can be achieved by adding a
balanceReferenceBus
Boolean parameter to the initialization parameters of the System object. When that parameter is set to true, two additional equations will be activated in the ReferenceBus, settingPSlack = 0
andQSlack = 0
. Of course this requires to free two parameters in the generator that acts as slack node, i.e., the one that hasslackPF = true
, see #132:globalSteadyStateFixedSetPoints
, this will require to put FreeOffset blocks in the generator inputs or generator controller set points, so that they can be adapted to balance the grid without slack power in the ReferenceBusglobalSteadyStateFixedPowerFlow
, then the given power flow for the generator withslackPF = true
will be ignored and replaced by the computed values that balance the gridIf the initialization mode is
localSteadyStateFixedPowerFlow
then the ReferenceBus already hasPSlack = 0
andQSlack = 0
, so it doesn't make sense to turn onbalanceReferenceBus
in this case.@ceraolo, once we have sorted out #132, this feature is trivial to implement, as it involves a few lines of code, so we can add it to 2.0.0 without problems.
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