Intentional Controlled Islanding Strategy for Wind Power Plant Integrated Systems

The concept of intentional controlled islanding (ICI) is introduced as a proactive measure to safeguard the power system against blackouts in the event of significant disturbances. It involves strategically partitioning the system into self-healing islands, thereby mitigating the impact of such disturbances. This study introduces a new framework for creating stable, controlled islands in power systems with large-scale wind power plants. The proposed islanding strategy takes into account the impact of wind power plants on the coherency grouping of generators as a constraint in the ICI problem. The proposed algorithm employs the Virtual Synchronous Motion Equation (VSME) model of asynchronous generators to replace wind power plants in power systems and groups all generators, including synchronous generators and wind turbine generators, based on their dynamic coupling. Support Vector Clustering is employed in the ICI problem to determine the coherent generator clusters as the cores of the formed islands. The algorithm can identify the optimal number of islands without prior information about the number of clusters. In this study, a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is formulated to address the ICI problem with the objective of minimising the power imbalance in each island after splitting while ensuring the transient stability and dynamic frequency stability of ICI. Simulation results on modified 39-bus and 118-bus test power systems demonstrate that integrating a Virtual Inertia Controller into the wind-integrated power systems results in a high-inertia power system that behaves similarly to a conventional power system with only synchronous generators during the islanding procedure.