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Trends and Challenges in Power System Stability and Control

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 4437

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Department of Electric Power Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211167, China
Interests: power system control; smart grid; power system protection; renewable energy; AI in power system
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: energy management system; intelligent techniques; power quality Monitoring and analysis; power system economics and optimization; protective relaying security
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Dear Colleagues,

As the energy sector undergoes rapid evolution, power systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges. The integration of renewable energy sources, the advent of distributed generation, and the growing demands of modern infrastructure are reshaping how power systems are designed, operated, and controlled.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest trends, research, and innovations in the field of power system stability and control.

Prof. Dr. Ke Xu
Prof. Dr. Yuan Liao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • power system control
  • power system stability
  • power system operation
  • renewable energy resources
  • intelligent techniques
  • power system analysis
  • power system protection
  • renewable energy integration
  • smart grid
  • microgrid

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Analysis and Control Parameters Optimization of Wind Turbines Participating in Power System Primary Frequency Regulation with the Consideration of Secondary Frequency Drop
by Ketian Liu, Zhengxi Chen, Xiang Li and Yi Gao
Energies 2025, 18(6), 1317; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18061317 - 7 Mar 2025
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With the increasing integration of wind energy into power systems, maintaining frequency stability has become a significant challenge. To address the issue of secondary frequency drop caused by wind turbines exiting the primary frequency regulation of power systems, this paper presents a control [...] Read more.
With the increasing integration of wind energy into power systems, maintaining frequency stability has become a significant challenge. To address the issue of secondary frequency drop caused by wind turbines exiting the primary frequency regulation of power systems, this paper presents a control parameters optimization method of wind turbines participating in power system primary frequency regulation. Initially, with the assumption of constant wind speed and linearization of the wind power coefficient, the relationship between the mechanical power and rotor speed of the wind turbines is established. Subsequently, the primary frequency regulation component of wind turbines is integrated into the classical system frequency response (SFR) model, accounting for the effects of exiting time and rotor speed variations. Following this, the dynamic frequency of the power system is computed with the modified SFR model, and the time domain expressions for both primary and secondary frequency drops are derived. Furthermore, an optimization model for the control parameters of wind turbines participating in primary frequency regulation is developed, aiming to minimize the values both of primary and secondary frequency drops. Finally, a case study is constructed to validate the efficacy of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the optimization method introduced in this paper significantly enhances the dynamic characteristics of the system frequency. Full article
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Identification and Correction of Abnormal, Incomplete Power Load Data in Electricity Spot Market Databases
by Jingjiao Li, Yifan Lv, Zhou Zhou, Zhiwen Du, Qiang Wei and Ke Xu
Energies 2025, 18(1), 176; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18010176 - 3 Jan 2025
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The development of electricity spot markets necessitates more refined and accurate load forecasting capabilities to enable precise dispatch control and the creation of new trading products. Accurate load forecasting relies on high-quality historical load data, with complete load data serving as the cornerstone [...] Read more.
The development of electricity spot markets necessitates more refined and accurate load forecasting capabilities to enable precise dispatch control and the creation of new trading products. Accurate load forecasting relies on high-quality historical load data, with complete load data serving as the cornerstone for both forecasting and transactions in electricity spot markets. However, historical load data at the distribution network or user level often suffers from anomalies and missing values. Data-driven methods have been widely adopted for anomaly detection due to their independence from prior expert knowledge and precise physical models. Nevertheless, single network architectures struggle to adapt to the diverse load characteristics of distribution networks or users, hindering the effective capture of anomaly patterns. This paper proposes a PLS-VAE-BiLSTM-based method for anomaly identification and correction in load data by combining the strengths of Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks (BiLSTM). This method begins with data preprocessing, including normalization and preliminary missing value imputation based on Partial Least Squares (PLS). Subsequently, a hybrid VAE-BiLSTM model is constructed and trained on a loaded dataset incorporating influencing factors to learn the relationships between different data features. Anomalies are identified and corrected by calculating the deviation between the model’s reconstructed values and the actual values. Finally, validation on both public and private datasets demonstrates that the PLS-VAE-BiLSTM model achieves average performance metrics of 98.44% precision, 94% recall rate, and 96.05% F1 score. Compared with VAE-LSTM, PSO-PFCM, and WTRR models, the proposed method exhibits superior overall anomaly detection performance. Full article
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Power Dispatching Strategy Considering the Health Status of Multi-Energy Conversion Equipment in Highway Power Supply Systems
by Xianhong Hou, Jiao Wang, Shaoyong Guo and Ketian Liu
Energies 2024, 17(17), 4499; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17174499 - 8 Sep 2024
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In order to extend the service life of a highway power supply system and the level of new energy consumption, a power dispatching strategy considering the health status of multi-energy conversion equipment is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the energy and load forms [...] Read more.
In order to extend the service life of a highway power supply system and the level of new energy consumption, a power dispatching strategy considering the health status of multi-energy conversion equipment is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the energy and load forms of the highway power supply system are introduced, and the structure of the multi-energy conversion equipment, the topological structures of the DC–DC and DC–AC modules, and the operating characteristics are analyzed. Secondly, the module temperatures and output voltages are used as main parameters to establish the health indexes of DC–DC and DC–AC modules, and then the health index of the multi-energy conversion equipment is further calculated. Thirdly, the new energy consumption index is defined, and a multi-objective optimization model for power dispatching of highway power supply systems is established with the goal of improving the health index of multi-energy conversion equipment and the new energy consumption index. The case study shows that the power dispatching strategy in this paper can better control the temperature of each module, improve the health status of multi-energy conversion equipment, and have a high level of new energy consumption. Full article
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Two-Stage Optimal Scheduling Based on the Meteorological Prediction of a Wind–Solar-Energy Storage System with Demand Response
by Lu Wei, Yiyin Li, Boyu Xie, Ke Xu and Gaojun Meng
Energies 2024, 17(6), 1286; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17061286 - 7 Mar 2024
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With large-scale wind and solar power connected to the power grid, the randomness and volatility of its output have an increasingly serious adverse impact on power grid dispatching. Aiming at the system peak shaving problem caused by regional large-scale wind power photovoltaic grid [...] Read more.
With large-scale wind and solar power connected to the power grid, the randomness and volatility of its output have an increasingly serious adverse impact on power grid dispatching. Aiming at the system peak shaving problem caused by regional large-scale wind power photovoltaic grid connection, a new two-stage optimal scheduling model of wind solar energy storage system considering demand response is proposed. There is a need to comprehensively consider the power generation cost of various types of power sources, day-ahead load forecasting information, and other factors and plan the day-ahead output plan of the energy storage system with the minimum system operation cost as the optimization objective of day-ahead dispatching. The demand response strategy is introduced into the time-ahead optimal scheduling, and the optimization of the output value of the energy storage system in each period is studied with the goal of minimizing the system adjustment cost. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to solve the model, and the IEEE33 node system is used for an example simulation. The results show that using the demand response and the collaborative effect of the energy storage system can suppress the uncertainty of wind power and photovoltaic power, improve the utilization rate of the system, reduce the power generation cost of the system, and achieve significant comprehensive benefits. Full article
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