Control Performance Standards-Oriented Event-Triggered Load Frequency Control for Power Systems Under Limited Communication Bandwidth

Load frequency control (LFC) of modern power systems tends to employ open communication networks to transmit measurement/control signals. Under a limited network bandwidth, the continuous and high-sampling-rate signal transmission will be prone to degradation of the LFC performance through network congestion. This brief proposes a decentralized control performance standards (CPSs)-oriented event-triggered (ET) LFC scheme for power systems under constrained communication bandwidth. The proposed scheme comprises the ET LFC scheme and the CPSs-oriented regulation scheme. In the CPSs-oriented regulation scheme, regulation rules are designed to adjust the threshold parameter of the ET LFC scheme based on the North American Electrical Reliability Council (NERC)’s CPS1 and CPS2. The rules generate a larger threshold parameter to lower the triggering frequency in order to reduce unnecessary transmission of measurement/control signals, while ensuring the frequency and tie-lie power of the power systems to meet the required CPS1 and CPS2 instead of the asymptotic stability requirement in the existing research. The reduced transmission of these signals lessens the communication burden. In addition, the decentralized control strategy is used to solve the problems of poor large scalability and computational dimension caused by the centralized control strategy. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is evaluated on an IEEE 39-bus test system with renewable energy sources.