Optimal Placement and Tuning Approach for Design of Power System Stabilizers and Wide Area Damping Controllers Considering Transport Delay

Abstract In this paper, a novel optimal placement and parameter tuning approach for Power System Stabilizer (PSS) is proposed to damp both local and inter-area modes in mesh like power system. The design target is two-level PSS consisting of ΔP type local PSS and Δθ type Wide Area Damping Controller (WADC). For the PSS placement, modeshape with eigenvector sensitivity and coherency analysis are used to determine the appropriate placement of both local PSS and WADC. For the PSS parameter tuning, metaheuristics based approach via Mean Variance Mapping Optimization (MVMO) is employed in order to consider the time domain analysis. The proposed objective function designs at first the local PSS only to improve damping coefficient and damping ratio of eigenvalue. After that, it designs the WADC overlapping with already designed local PSS by time domain analysis, taking into account the transport delay in the remote signal between Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) and PSS. The proposed method is applied in IEEE New England 39-Bus (NE 39-bus) system model. Then, modeshape and coherent grouping analysis give us understandable system aspect, the local PSS and the WADC optimized by using MVMO considering the transport delay improve both local and inter-area modes whereas a method ignoring the transport delay make system poorly damped.