Dynamic regulation reliability of a pumped-storage power generating system: Effects of wind power injection

Multi-energy integrated sources are increasingly being used as the bundling-sale for electric systems. Estimating the power supply reliability and regulation performance of the fixed-speed Pumped-Storage Generation Systems (PSGSs) in suppressing power fluctuations of intermittent energy is essential to the operational safety and re-liability of a system. However, the regulation process relates to the coupling fluctuations of hydraulic -me-chanical-electrical factors, leading to a multiple time-scale effect to the whole hybrid power system. This makes the PSGS's power response lagging behind the wind power fluctuation and further impacts the power supply reliability of the hybrid power system. To enable the analysis, a numerical model which describes operating states of the presented integrated system, including wind energy and PSGS, is developed in MATLAB/Simulink. Then, ten wind scenarios are selected to study complementation and regulation ability of the PSGS based on a framework of evaluation indicators. The results show that longer power response delay and larger guide vane distance opening result in weaker complementary response of PSGS to wind disturbances. It is also shown that the PSGS provides good complementary capability at lower random wind standard deviation (0.5 vs 1.5), larger wind speed mean value (15 m/s vs 13 m/s) and lower wind speed deviation (5 m/s vs 12 m/s). Furthermore, an unexpected regulation behavior is demonstrated: fast settling and peak times coincide with large variation in overshoot, undershoot and peak value of the power response. This presents a challenge in assessing performance of the integrated generation system. The proposed evaluation method and presented results are important steps to increasing the national power grid capability to accept high integration of multiple energy sources.