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Philipp C Böttcher1, Dirk Witthaut1, Leonardo Rydin Gorjão1
1Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate Research-Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEK-STE), 52428 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
Dynamic stability is imperative for the operation of the electric power system. This article provides analytical results and effective stability criteria focusing on the interplay of network structures and the local dynamics of synchronous machines. The results are based on an extensive linear stability analysis of the third-order model for synchronous machines, comprising the classical power-swing equations and the voltage dynamics. The article addresses the impact of Ohmic losses, which are important in distribution and microgrids but often neglected in analytical studies. We compute the shift of the stability boundaries to leading order, and thus provide a detailed qualitative picture of the impact of Ohmic losses. A subsequent numerical study of the criteria is presented, without and with resistive terms, to test how tight the derived analytical results are.
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