Research on Control Method of Inverters for Large-scale Grid Connected Photovoltaic Power System

Zhuo Zhang, Hongwei Li

Power Supply Company of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2013.54B284                

Abstract

A grid-connected inverter controlling method to analyze dynamic process of large-scale and grid-connected photovoltaic power station is proposed. The reference values of control variables are composed of maximum power which is the output of the photovoltaic array of the photovoltaic power plant, and power factor specified by dispatching, the control strategy of dynamic feedback linearization is adopted. Nonlinear decoupling controller is designed for realizing decoupling control of active and reactive power. The cascade PI regulation is proposed to avoid inaccurate parameter estimation which generates the system static error. Simulation is carried out based on the simplified power system with large-scale photovoltaic plant modelling, and the power factor, solar radiation strength, and bus fault are considered for the further research. It’s demonstrated that the parameter adjustment of PI controller is simple and convenient, dynamic response of system is transient, and the stability of the inverter control is verified.

Keywords

Large-scale Photovoltaic Grid-connected; Dynamic Feedback Linearization; Nonlinear Decoupling; Cascade Connection PI Control

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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