A MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEGAWATT LEVEL BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE POWER PLANT

• US 20160218511A1
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China), State Grid Corporation of China, Zhangjiakou Wind and Solar Power Energy Demonstration
• Original Assignee: China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China), State Grid Corporation of China, Zhangjiakou Wind and Solar Power Energy Demonstration
• Inventors: Wang, Liye, Guo, Guangchao, Liang, Yanting, Li, Xiangjun, Hui, Dong, Lai, Xiaokang, Jia, Xuecui, Wang, Ping, Zhang, Liang
• Granted Patent: US 9,660,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/04 involving the use of models or simulators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 10/20 Systems characterised by their energy storage means H02S40/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 50/00 Monitoring or testing of PV systems, e.g. load balancing or fault identification
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin

Abstract

The present invention relates to a monitoring and controlling system and method for megawatt level battery energy storage power plant, which includes a central monitoring and controlling module and local monitoring and controlling modules, between the two modules adopts real time and non real time communication parallel network structure to communicate with each other. The central monitoring and controlling module is configured to read the data of the battery energy storage power plant through the communication network, and store and manage the data, determine the total power demand of the battery energy storage power plant, determine all the power demand values of the energy storage substation, and send to all the local monitoring and controlling modules, calculate all the power demand values of the energy storage units, and send to the energy storage units, and then send all the power demand values of the energy storage units, real time and non real time data to the central monitoring and controlling module for unified storage and management. The monitoring system and method meets the requirements of cluster real-time rapid control and thousands of transmission data monitoring, and ensures the healthy operation of the battery to battery energy storage power station more security and stability.

Claims

1. A monitoring and controlling system for megawatt level battery energy storage power plant comprising:

a central monitoring and controlling module configured to determine the power command value of each energy storage substation of the battery energy storage power plant, and send it to all local monitoring and controlling modules; and

local monitoring and controlling modules configured to calculate the power command value of each energy storage unit of the energy storage substations, send it to each energy storage unit, and upload to a central monitoring and controlling module to store,

wherein the data transmission and communication are carried out through communication networks, said communication networks including real time and non-real time communication parallel network structure between said central monitoring and controlling module and said local monitoring and controlling modules.

2. A monitoring and controlling system according to claim 1, wherein said central monitoring and controlling module include:

a central support module configured to read the data of the battery energy storage plant, and send it to a central storage module;

a central power management module configured to calculate real timely total power demand of the battery energy storage plant and determine the power command value of each energy storage unit of the power plant according to specific application, and send it to the central storage module and a central real-time communication module;

a central storage module configured to storage the data of battery energy storage and the power command value of each energy storage substation, and give the data and the power command values to corresponding interface variables for the local central monitoring and controlling module and external dispatch center to call; and

a central communication module, including a central real time communication module and a central non-real-time communication module, said central real time communication module communicates real time with the local monitoring and controlling module and external dispatch center through real time communication network, said central non real time communication module communicates with the local monitoring and controlling module and external dispatch center through non real time communication network.

3. A monitoring and controlling system according to claim 2, wherein said central power management module includes:

a smooth wind/photovoltaic power output module configured to calculate real time total power demand of the battery energy storage plant that is smooth wind/photovoltaic generation output fluctuation required;

a tracking program power generation module configured to compute total power demand of the battery storage plant real-time for tracking program power;

a system frequency regulation module configured to compute total power demand of the battery storage plant real-time for frequency regulation;

a peak shaving module configured to calculate total power demand of the battery storage plant real-time for shaving peak;

a security and stability control module configured to calculate total power demand of the battery storage plant real-time for safe and stable control;

an energy storage power station total power demand real-time allocation module configured to calculate the power command value of each energy storage substation according to the battery energy storage need total power computed by any above said module calculation or sent directly by the external dispatch center; and

a data process module configured to read the real time data that is transmitted through the central real time communication module, and send the data to smooth wind/photovoltaic power output module, track program generation module, system frequency regulation module, peak shaving module, security and stability control module, or energy storage power station total power demand real-time allocation module to compute, and then send the calculation results to the central real time communication module and the central storage module.

4. A monitoring and controlling system according to claim 1, wherein said local monitoring and controlling module includes:

a local system support module configured to read power command values of the relevant energy storage substations of the battery storage energy station and real time, non real time data of all energy storage units, and sending it to the local storage module;

a local power management module configured to to calculate all the power demand values of the energy storage units of the energy storage substation, and send it to the corresponding energy storage units;

a local storage module configured to store temporary storage power command value of the energy storage substation, and all the power command values, real time data, and non real time data of the energy storage units, and send all the power command values and real time data of the energy storage units to the central communication module to storage through the local real time communication module; and

a local communication module, including a local real time communication module and local non real time communication module, said local real time communication module communicates real time with the central monitoring and controlling module and all of energy storage units through real time communication network, said local non real time communication module communicates with the central monitoring and controlling module and all of the energy storage units through non real time communication network.

5. A monitoring and controlling method for megawatt level battery energy storage power plant comprising:

Step A. The central monitoring and controlling module reads the data of the battery energy storage power plant through the communication network, and stores and manages above data, said the communication network adopts real time and non real time communication parallel network structure;

Step B. Determining the total power demand of the battery energy storage power plant according to the central monitoring and controlling module;

Step C. Determining all the power demand values of the energy storage substation of the battery energy storage power plant according to the central monitoring and controlling module, and sending it to all the local monitoring and controlling modules;

Step D. Calculating all the power command values of the energy storage units of the energy storage substation according to the local monitoring and controlling module, and sending it to the energy storage units;

Step E. Sending all the power command values, real time data and non real time data of the energy storage units that are saved temporarily in the local monitoring and controlling module to the central monitoring and controlling module to storage and mange through the communication network.

6. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 5, wherein the total power demand of the battery energy storage power plant can be determined as below in step B:

B1) reading wind/photovoltaic generation smooth aim value and the total power real time, and the different value to get which the latter value is subtracted from the former value is the total power demand of the battery energy storage plant the smooth wind/photovoltaic generation output fluctuation needed;

B2) reading wind/photovoltaic generation plan value real time, and determining the total power of the wind/photovoltaic energy storage generation, the power value of the wind and photovoltaic generation is subtracted from the total power value, and judge by the minus value and then adjust, get the total power demand of the battery energy storage station of tracking plan needed at present;

B3) reading system frequency regulation power command value P_ES^AGC, judging whether it satisfies the maximum allowable discharge power constraints or the maximum allowable charging power constraints according to the sign of P_ES^AGC;

if the violation of the constraint conditions, taking the battery energy storage station maximum allowed discharge power or the maximum allowable charging power as system frequency regulation required total power of the battery energy storage;

otherwise, P_ES^AGC will be considered as system frequency regulation required total power of the battery energy storage;

B4) reading real the peak shaving curve value and system load curve value at present, and judging and re-correcting the minus value get from which the latter is subtracted from the former, and get the total power demand of the battery energy storage station of shaving peak needed at present;

B5) taking the battery energy storage station maximum allowed discharge power as the safe and stable control need total power of the battery energy storage;

B6) reading real time the total power of the battery energy storage station need that is sent by external dispatch center directly.

7. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 6, wherein

In step B1, the total power demand of the battery energy storage to output smooth wind/photovoltaic fluctuation is computed by the following formulations:

P_ES^TM=P_SWP^TV−

P_TWP

Where,

8. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 5, wherein, in step C, the specific method to determine all the power command values of said the energy storage substations of the battery energy storage power plant includes:

when the total power demand of the battery energy storage power plant is positive, the power command values of the energy storage substations P_substationi is;

9. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 5, wherein, in step D, the specific method to calculate all the power command values of the energy storage units includes:

according to energy storage substation power command value sign, decide to choose the maximum allowable discharge power or charging power to calculate decision variable of each energy storage unit, and then calculate the power command value of each storage unit; and

judging whether each energy storage unit meets the constraints of the maximum allowable discharge power or allowable charge power or not, if the storage units violating corresponding constraints, recalculate the power command value through the maximum allowable discharge power or the maximum allowable charge power of the storage units;

or end the judgment.

10. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 9, is characterized that, the specific method in said step D includes:

Step D1. when the command power P_substationi of the energy storage substation i is positive, the method to calculate the command power of each units of the energy storage substation includes following steps;

D11) calculating each decision variable x_i of storage units through genetic algorithm;

D12) calculating each command power P_i of storage units through following formulation;

11. A monitoring and controlling method according to claim 10, wherein the method to calculate the decision variable of each unit in said step D11 includes following steps:

(11a) determining the individual number N of the group, the number of genes of each individual is the number L of the storage unit, making binary codes for each individual, and a randomly generate N individuals as the initial group, obtaining 0 and 1 gene cluster combination, and letting evolution algebra counter value G=0;

(11b) judging whether the evolution algebra counter value G is less than or equal to the maximum evolution generation counter value G^max or not, and whether each individual meets the constraints of the following formula;

If the above two conditions are both met, go to step 11c;

Otherwise, skip to step 11f;