Harris Hawks Optimization-Based Algorithm for STATCOM Voltage Regulation of Offshore Wind Farm Grid

Wind energy is among the fastest-growing electric energy resources worldwide. As the electric power generated by wind turbines (WTs) varies, the WT-connected bus voltage fluctuates. This paper presents a study on implementing a swarm-based proportional and integral (PI) controller for GTO-STATCOM vo...

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Main Authors: Chang, G.W (Author), Cheng, H.-C (Author), Huang, B.-X (Author), Lin, J.-T (Author), Liu, Y.-J (Author), Wang, P.-K (Author), Wang, Z.-W (Author)
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2022
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520 3 |a Wind energy is among the fastest-growing electric energy resources worldwide. As the electric power generated by wind turbines (WTs) varies, the WT-connected bus voltage fluctuates. This paper presents a study on implementing a swarm-based proportional and integral (PI) controller for GTO-STATCOM voltage regulator to mitigate the voltage fluctuation caused by the output variations of an offshore wind farm. The proposed swarm-based algorithm for the PI controller is Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO). Simulation results obtained by the HHO algorithm are compared with three other swarm-based algorithms and show that STATCOM with HHO-based PI controller can effectively regulate the WT-connected bus voltage under different wind power output conditions. It shows that the STATCOM compensation performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to that of the compared solutions in maintaining the stable WT-connected bus voltage. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 
650 0 4 |a Bus voltage 
650 0 4 |a Controllers 
650 0 4 |a Electric current regulators 
650 0 4 |a Electric energies 
650 0 4 |a Electric power 
650 0 4 |a Electric power system interconnection 
650 0 4 |a Electric utilities 
650 0 4 |a Offshore oil well production 
650 0 4 |a Offshore wind farms 
650 0 4 |a Optimisations 
650 0 4 |a Optimization algorithms 
650 0 4 |a Optimization-based algorithm 
650 0 4 |a Proportional and integral controllers 
650 0 4 |a Reactive power 
650 0 4 |a reactive power compensation 
650 0 4 |a STATCOM 
650 0 4 |a Static synchronous compensators 
650 0 4 |a Swarm intelligence 
650 0 4 |a swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithm 
650 0 4 |a Swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithm 
650 0 4 |a voltage fluctuation 
650 0 4 |a Voltage fluctuations 
650 0 4 |a Voltage regulators 
650 0 4 |a Voltage regulator's 
700 1 |a Chang, G.W.  |e author 
700 1 |a Cheng, H.-C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Huang, B.-X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lin, J.-T.  |e author 
700 1 |a Liu, Y.-J.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, P.-K.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, Z.-W.  |e author 
773 |t Energies