Coordination des regulateurs conventionnels des machines Synchrones et des Compensateurs Statiques (SVCs)

This thesis proposes a new control design method based on wide-area measurements to coordinate generator excitations and Static Var Compensator (SVC) auxiliary controls. A state space model of a multimachine power system that includes a SVC is first derived. This model has several specific characteristics. The interactions between SVC and generator variables are clearly shown and the interactions among the generators are also quantified. Generators terminal voltages are used as state variables instead of internal field voltages and damper winding flux linkages. The benefit is that the proposed model state variables are easily measurable. Moreover, it is a hierarchical approach and suitable for wide-area control design in large power systems.;Furthermore, Relative Gain Array (RGA) theory is proposed to evaluate the interactions and to select the input global signals for the coordinate controller. Only signals that contribute to the strongest interactions are used by the controller to considerably reduce or eliminate the interactions between the system components. The second controller with a reduced set of measurements is compared to the first controller with full measurements. Results show that performances of both controllers are very similar. They provide significant additional damping for power oscillations and increase the power transfer in the system.;Communication time delay effects are also considered in this study. The simulation results show that coordinating controller performances are excellent when realistic transmission delays are represented. However, in presence of large measurement and control delays the performance of the controller is considerably affected. A Smith predictor is proposed to recover the delay free performances. The simulation results prove that impacts of large communication time delays are efficiently compensated using the Smith prediction method.;The proposed wide-area coordinating controller is simple and easy to implement since it requires only one measurement from each generator and the SVC as inputs and the controller provides one control signal for the SVC and each of the generators. It could be cost effective to use the proposed controller rather than the installation of new FACTS devices.;Next, remote measurements are used to generate coordinating signals for the generator excitations and the SVC. The coordinating controller decouples the system dynamics by compensating the interaction terms. The effectiveness of the new control strategy is tested on Anderson and Farmer four-generator nine-bus power system. Simulation results demonstrate that both local and inter-area oscillations are well damped when the global controller is used.;Keywords: coordination, hierarchical control, inter-area oscillations, FACTS controllers, power systems modeling, Relative Gain Array (RGA), Static Var Compensator (SVC), Wide-Area Control.