Reactive Power Control of Isolated Wind-diesel Hybrid Power System Using Grey Wolf Optimization Technique

In this paper reactive-power control of an isolated wind–diesel hybrid power system is presented. The system generates electrical power from wind by an induction generator (IG) and a synchronous generator (SG) is present for a diesel-generator (DG) set. The mathematical model of the reactive-power balance is presented. In an isolated system IG consumes reactive power which is supplied by the static var compensator (SVC). It also provides reactive power support for load variations. In the type III SVC used here, the proportional integral (PI) controller gains are optimized using Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm. Three objective functions namely Integral Time Absolute Error (ITAE), Integral Square Error (ISE) and Integral Time Square Error (ITSE) are considered and their performance is compared in a hybrid system and with earlier work.