A Novel Method for Enhancement of System Regulating Capacity by using Seawater Desalination Plant in a Small Island Power System

Abstract

Recently, more and more unstable renewable energy based generations such as photovoltaic generations and wind turbine generations have been installed into power systems. This paper focuses a small island power system operation and proposes a novel control method of power consumption of a seawater desalination plant as a controllable load in order to secure more regulating capacity of the power system considering the customer's convenience of the desalination plant. Through a frequency analysis simulation, fuel cost can be reduced and system frequency fluctuation can be suppressed for the proposed control method of seawater desalination plant.