INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH, cilt.9, sa.1, ss.470-479, 2019 (ESCI)
This article presents the study of frequency regulation of a solar energy based two area integrated power system equipped with multi-staged PID & conventional PID controller. To optimize the parameters of the projected multi-staged PID controllers, invasive weed optimization algorithm (IWOA) is employed. A disturbance to the extent of 0.01 p.u. is injected to the control area 1 to examine the effectiveness of the controllers in maintaining the system stability. Comparison of the results with respect to the magnitude of oscillations and settling time indicates that the proposed multi-staged PID controller outperforms the classical PID controller. The projected multi-staged PID controller optimised by the aforesaid algorithm (IWOA) helps in attaining nominal values of the tie-line power & frequency deviations during large parametric variation of the system and variation of system condition. Robustness of the proposed control strategy is established under various conditions such as (i) inclusion of a time delay of 0.7 s in each control area, (ii) wide variations of the system parameters and (iii) application of a random loading pattern in area 1.