Efficient frequency controllers for autonomous two-area hybrid microgrid system using social-spider optimiser

In this study, an efficient load frequency controller (LFC) for standalone two-area hybrid microgrid system (HμGS) is addressed. Social-spider optimiser (SSO) is applied to fine tune the proposed proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controllers by generating their optimal settings. The integral time multiplied summation of absolute deviations and the gains of PID controllers define the fitness function and control variables, respectively. The performance of the proposed SSO-based method is demonstrated on an isolated HμGS complete with variety of energy storage systems under number of scenarios. The scenarios include load fluctuations, variations in wind speed, and sun irradiance employing real site measurements. In this study, photovoltaic generating arrays and wind turbine generators are not participating in system frequency regulations due the proposal of their maximum power tracking operation strategy. The signatures of time-domain dynamic responses and cropped numerical results ascertain that the proposed SSO-based LFC scheme is promising in diminuting the signal deviations and in short time. Further validations for cropped results produced by SSO are made compared with powerful optimisation tool such as genetic algorithm which signify the tuned PID gains.

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