As the importance of renewable energy utilization has emerged around the world in an effort to reduce fossil fuel energy reliance and greenhouse gases, South Korea’s power industry has gradually shut down thermal power and nuclear power plants and i...
As the importance of renewable energy utilization has emerged around the world in an effort to reduce fossil fuel energy reliance and greenhouse gases, South Korea’s power industry has gradually shut down thermal power and nuclear power plants and increased the proportion of renewable energy resources in power generation. This policy aims to increase the rate of renewable energy generation from 7% to 20% by 2030 and plans to supply approximately 97% of new facility capacity, mainly in wind and solar power generation.
Renewable energy resources are very intermittent and variable depending on meteorological factors. In particular, in wind power generation, the short-term pattern such as in solar power is difficult to predict and has large uncertainty because it is greatly affected by wind speed. In the future, if wind power generation can be integrated at a large scale to achieve policy goals, it will bring great uncertainty into the power system, which can lead to a massive curtailment of wind power output. To cope with this, we propose a probabilistic wind power output modeling method to expand the penetration of wind-generation resources. In this paper, a probabilistic security assessment of the power system is performed and a transmission network expansion plan is proposed to improve power system security through probabilistic analysis.
According to the existing deterministic method, power system analysis cannot reflect the uncertainty of renewable energy resources, which increases errors and complexity when performing power flow calculations. This is a major problem currently faced by grid operators and planners and can be inefficient in power system analysis. Therefore, probabilistic wind power output modeling was performed in this study for efficient system operation and planning when large-scale wind generation resources are integrated into an existing system.
Nine wind farms were integrated into Jeju Island's power system using their historical wind power output data. To take into account the seasonality of wind power output, time series analysis was performed based on historical data from the past three years to confirm the seasonality and Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS)-based output modeling was performed to reflect the uncertainty. MCS is a probabilistic simulation that can assist decision-making by randomly extracting random values as many times as a preset number of simulations for uncertain variables and presenting the probability of occurrences. Probabilistic indicators for decision-making are calculated through random numbers extracted based on probability distributions that represent past measured data. In this study, the extracted random numbers are used as power system input data for steady-state security analysis and a random number of repeated power flow calculations are performed. At this time, a Python-based PSS/E automation algorithm was implemented for the countless number of iterative power flow calculations.
As a result of analyzing the security of the power system during steady-state and N-1 contingency through input data for integrating the Jeju power system, it is possible to evaluate the uncertainty of each transmission line and bus and the potential of overload and voltage violation. Through the probabilistic indicator, it was possible to determine what facilities were needed to reinforce the transmission capacities and input reactive power compensators.
The transmission network reinforcement plan was proposed with plans to expand the capacity of the transmission lines of the Jeju power system and whether to adjust the reactive power compensators and transformer taps. The result of repeated power flow calculations after applying reinforcement plan confirmed that the security of the Jeju power system was improved.
This paper proposes a modeling method for expanding the penetration of wind generating resources in Jeju power systems in South Korea based on the probabilistic power system analysis method to which power institutions with high levels of overseas renewable energy generation pay attention. Accordingly, it is hoped that the Korean power system will also reflect the uncertainty of renewable energy resources, contributing to more efficient and economical transmission network operation, expansion, and reinforcement plans.