Distributed Frequency-Preserving Optimal Load Control

Abstract Frequency control is traditionally done on the generation side. Recently we have formulated an optimal load control (OLC) problem and derived a load-side primary frequency control as a primal-dual solution to OLC. The load-side control rebalances power and resynchronize frequencies after a disturbance but cannot restore the nominal frequency. In this paper we modify OLC and derive from it a frequency-preserving load-side control that rebalances power and restores the nominal frequency after a disturbance. Unlike the generation- side secondary frequency control that is centralized, our load-side control only requires each bus to communicate a Lagrange multiplier with its neighbors. We prove that such a distributed load- side control is globally asymptotically stable and illustrate its convergence with simulation.

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