Coordinated Control of Wind Turbine Blade Pitch Angle and PHEVs Using MPCs for Load Frequency Control of Microgrid

This paper proposes coordinated control of blade pitch angle of wind turbine generators and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for load frequency control of microgrid using model predictive controls (MPCs). The MPC is an effective model-based predictive control, which calculates future control signals by optimization method using plant model, current, and past signals of the system. The MPC-based PHEVs' power control can be used to reduce frequency fluctuation of microgrid effectively. However, for large system, large number of PHEVs is needed to produce satisfying frequency deviation. In order to reduce the number of PHEVs, the smoothing of wind power production by pitch angle control using MPC method is proposed and is coordinated with PHEVs control in this paper. The simulation results confirm that the coordinated control of pitch angle and PHEVs using MPCs is able to reduce the number of PHEVs and the frequency fluctuation can be maintained significantly. In addition, the proposed method is robust to the system parameters variation over proportional-integral derivative controllers.