Improvement strategy for robustness of power grid complex network by distributed photovoltaic power system

TLDR: It can be found that some parameters like tolerance coefficient are more dominant than others for the robustness of a network and some parameters interact obviously, like capacity addition ratio and addition station ratio, which may have a negative effect on the network.

Abstract: The robustness of power grids plays a very important role in reality. The blackout of power system can make a serious damage for the normal running of whole city or whole area and the loss caused by it is inestimable. This paper aims to propose a simulation method to evaluate the robustness of a power grid and some effective strategies to improve the robustness. Complex network keeps the most important characters of a power grid, and makes the simulation process concise. This paper studies how characters influence the robustness and proposes some conclusions and suggestions for enhancing effectively the robustness by changing these characters. In this paper, for the robustness of a network, it can be found that some parameters like tolerance coefficient are more dominant than others. Some parameters interact obviously, like capacity addition ratio and addition station ratio. Improper capacity addition strategy may have a negative effect on the network. And load node with big degree and small flow is likely an excellent choice to be added capacity by distributed photovoltaic power station. The simulation method and improvement strategy can be used in the engineering of power grid and establishment of distributed photovoltaic power system.