Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

ISSN 2196-5625 CN 32-1884/TK

Full-model-free Adaptive Graph Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Model for Multi-terminal Soft Open Point Voltage Control in Distribution Systems
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1.Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;2.Shenzhen Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, China;3.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau, Macau, China;4.Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72331008), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (No. 2023A1515010653), Environment and Conservation fund (No. ECF 49/2022), and PolyU research project 1-YXBL and CDAH.

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    Abstract:

    High penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) induces sharply-fluctuating feeder power, leading to voltage deviation in active distribution systems. To prevent voltage violations, multi-terminal soft open points (M-SOPs) have been integrated into the distribution systems to enhance voltage control flexibility. However, the M-SOP voltage control recalculated in real-time cannot adapt to the rapid fluctuations of photovoltaic (PV) power, fundamentally limiting the voltage controllability of M-SOPs. To address this issue, a full-model-free adaptive graph deep deterministic policy gradient (FAG-DDPG) model is proposed for M-SOP voltage control. Specifically, the attention-based adaptive graph convolutional network (AGCN) is leveraged to extract the complex correlation features of nodal information to improve the policy learning ability. Then, the AGCN-based surrogate model is trained to replace the power flow calculation to achieve model-free control. Furthermore, the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm allows FAG-DDPG model to learn an optimal control strategy of M-SOP by continuous interactions with the AGCN-based surrogate model. Numerical tests have been performed on modified IEEE 33-node, 123-node, and a real 76-node distribution systems, which demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization ability of the proposed FAG-DDPG model.

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  • Received:February 19,2024
  • Revised:March 26,2024
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  • Online: December 20,2024
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