A literature survey on load frequency control considering renewable energy integration in power system: Recent trends and future prospects

The electrical power system has experienced several changes during the last decade, raised by continuously increasing load demand, rapid depletion in fossil fuels, and newly electrical deregulation policy. In the past, numerous review literatures has been published in the field of Load Frequency Control (LFC), which deals with different and recent control strategies for the successful operation of the power system. Moreover, due to changes in lifestyle, increasing load demand, expansion of industrialization, and environmental issues, Renewable Energy Sources (RES) integration becomes the obvious adaptive choice. Since generation from RES is stochastic in nature and depends upon the weather condition and other aspects at every instant of time. Therefore, high penetration may reflect specific issues regarding voltage instability, frequency stabilization, and reliability obstruction. Hence this issue has been covered effectively in this review work. Furthermore, the work precisely summarized and briefly explained the different scenarios of Energy Storage (ES), micro-grid and Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) to explore the possible solutions and future aspects. The merit and demerit of different con-trollers are also investigated with the help of a comparison's tables and also some other analytical comparisons. The overall study examines an in-depth review of recent technical core aspects for LFC based on classical and modern power system which involves the non-linear model, controller design parameters, soft-computing application, attributes of Load forecasting, as well as integration of RES in a deregulated environment. This effective, comprehensive literature survey is very helpful for researchers to bridge the gap between recent development, implementation, challenges and future trends of RES in LFC.

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In the past decade, the electrical power system has undergone significant changes due to increasing load demand, depletion in fossil fuels, and deregulation policies. Literature reviews in Load Frequency Control (LFC) have discussed various control strategies. Integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has become a popular choice, but may pose challenges like voltage instability and frequency stabilization.