Geometric Decentralized Stability Certificate of Power Electronics-Dominated Power Systems Covering Variable Operating Points

Ruohan Leng, Linbin Huang, Liangxiao Luo, Huanhai Xin, Xiongfei Wang, Florian Dörfler

The integration of power converters is profoundly changing the power system dynamics and poses significant challenges for stability analysis. The dynamic interactions between the power grid and the heterogeneous converters are highly complex and difficult to analyze due to the curse of dimensionality. Moreover, system stability varies with the operating points, which are determined by the voltage magnitude, active power, and reactive power of each converter. This further complicates the analysis as it is difficult to enumerate and examine all the possible operating points. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes a geometric decentralized stability certificate for power electronics (PE)-dominated power systems, which can simultaneously handle heterogeneous power converters and their variable operating points. The certificate can be checked in a decentralized and modular manner, and it is scalable for large-scale power systems. Our approach is developed based on the concept of Davis-Wielandt (DW) shell and its projections, which can effectively visualize the characteristics of high-dimensional complex matrices. We investigate how the projections of the DW shell vary with operating points and how this variation can guide the search for worst-case operating conditions. We further propose an efficient algorithm to compute the stability margin and construct the certified operating regions. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through case studies on single-converter and 54-converter wind power systems.