This paper examines the application of STATCOM and battery energy storage to enhance the transient stability of large-scale multimachine power systems with synchronous and doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs). A passivity-based control design method [interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC)] is developed for multimachine power systems and its performance is evaluated on a two-area system consisting of two synchronous generators (SGs) and two DFIG along with STATCOM/battery energy storage system. The main contributions of this paper are threefold: 1) use of a STATCOM and battery energy storage system to enhance transient stability and provide voltage regulation with SG and DFIG; 2) demonstrating the application of nonlinear control theory (specifically the IDA-PBC methodology) for the design of a stabilizing feedback controller in large-scale power systems to improve transient system performance; and 3) developing a methodology that can use the additional degrees of freedom in large-scale power systems in order to further improve system performance, in particular the transient stability margin [measured through critical clearing time (CCT)] and the dynamic transient performance of the system. In order to achieve power angle stability along with the simultaneous regulation of frequency and voltage, the performance of the proposed control scheme after the occurrence of large disturbances is evaluated and compared with a conventional power system stabilizer and a feedback linearizing controller.

In this paper, energy storage used to enhance the transient stability of an electrical power system with renewable power generation is investigated. The passivity-based control design method (IDA-PBC) is used to achieve power angle stability and frequency and voltage regulation after the occurrence of a large disturbance (a symmetrical three-phase short circuit transmission line fault). The performance of the control design is illustrated in simulation for: (1) a single machine infinite bus (SMIB) and (2) a two-machine (synchronous and doublyfed induction generators) and infinite bus. The results show that the proposed controller provides improved critical clearing times (CCTs) and an enlarged domain of attraction (DOA) with improved frequency and voltage regulation.

In this article, a non-linear coordinated control of generator excitation and a static synchronous compensator is proposed to enhance the transient stability of an electrical power system. The coordinated controller proposed is designed via immersion and invariance methodology. In particular, a non-linear model of the power system and immersion and invariance design method are used to achieve not only power angle stability but also frequency and voltage regulations following a large disturbance (a symmetrical three-phase short-circuit fault) on one transmission line or a small perturbation to mechanical power input to synchronous generators in the system. The controller design is validated using a simulation study on a single-machine infinite bus. Simulation results show that the proposed controller can not only keep the system transiently stable but also simultaneously achieve power angle stability and frequency and voltage regulation.