Addressing Frequency Control Challenges in Future Low-Inertia Power Systems: A Great Britain Perspective

• DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2021.06.005
• Publication Date: 2021-06-24T10:50:31Z
• Authors: Qiteng Hong; Md Asif Uddin Khan; Callum Henderson; Agustí Egea-Àlvarez; Dimitrios Tzelepis; Campbell Booth
• Keywords: Synchronous compensation; Inertia emulation; 02 engineering and technology; Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); 530; Fast frequency control; 7. Clean energy; Low-inertia systems; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Mechanical engineering and machinery; TJ; TA1-2040

The ambitious global targets on decarbonization present the need for massive integration of renewable generation in power systems, resulting a significant decrease system inertia. In addition to reduction inertia, transmission Great Britain (GB) faces some unique challenges owing its relatively small capacity, while being decoupled from other systems and with resources largely non-uniformly distributed across system. This paper presents opinions insights associated frequency control low-inertia potential solutions GB perspective. this paper, we focus three main techniques that act over different time scales: synchronous condensers, inertia emulation, fast response. We evaluate their relative advantages limitations learnings recent research development projects GB, along roles addressing future systems.