LMI-based decentralized load frequency control of a hybrid power system with a virtual synchronous generator and battery storage

This paper proposes the participation of wind generation in the decentralized control of load frequency of a hybrid power system consisting of, in addition to wind generation, conventional generation and battery storage. The wind generation is modelled as a ‘Virtual Synchronous Generator (VSG)’ in a separate control area with its own virtual frequency. It has also been proposed to operate the wind generation system in a ‘de-loaded’ mode, thereby allowing it to take part in frequency regulation services. For the purposes of a decentralized control design, the overall system model is decomposed into three subsystems. Static state-feedback control gains are computed by posing the decentralized control problem as a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) subject to structural and stabilizing constraints.