BESS based voltage stability improvement enhancing the optimal control of real and reactive power compensation

With the increase in the integration of renewable energy resources in the grid and ongoing growth in load demand worldwide, existing transmission lines are operating near their loading limits which may experience voltage collapse in a small disturbance. System stability and security can be improved when the closeness of the system to collapse is known. In this research, voltage stability of IEEE 30 bus test network is analyzed and assessed under continuously increasing load condition, utilizing the Critical Boundary Index (CBI); and improved with continuous integration of battery energy storage system (BESS). BESS is considered to be a hybrid combination of storage units and voltage source converter to have a controllable real and reactive power output. Security constraint optimal power flow is utilized for optimally sizing the installed BESS. It is evident from the outcome of the research that the voltage stability of the system is controlled to be above the acceptable range of 0.3 pu CBI in all lines and the system voltage is kept within the acceptable and constrained range of 0.9–1.1 pu.