New Automatic Reclosing Scheme on Substation Lines for Renewable Energy Source Access

In order to avoid the adverse effects of the access of renewable energy sources on automatic reclosing, reclosing is usually done by cutting out renewable energy power supply after the fault occurs and extending the reclosing setting time. But this will lead to the interruption of power supply to a large number of local loads, which is not conducive to the efficient use of renewable energy sources. In this paper, a new reclosing method for substation lines with inverter-type renewable energy source access is proposed. This method can keep the inverter-type renewable energy source running continuously during reclosing, and ensure the continuity of power supply of important loads. Firstly, it is pointed out that the control strategy of renewable energy source must be switched during reclosing, to make it have the basic island operation capability. Then, to maintain the power balance between renewable energy source and load, the method of using load shedding cooperating with unloading resistors during reclosing is proposed. Finally, the reclosing operation will be performed when the synchronization conditions are met. And simulation under different working conditions is carried out on PSCAD/EMTDC platform, which verified the feasibility of the proposed reclosing strategy.