Acceleration of Power System Dynamic Simulation with High-Penetration Renewable Generation via Time-Step Adjustment Based on ETFBs

With the widespread integration of renewable energy sources (REs), the number of power system scenarios to be analyzed has increased significantly, and the system structure has become increasingly complex, which increases the computational burden of power system dynamic simulations and leads to substantial computation time. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the efficiency of dynamic simulation to meet the requirements of advanced applications. The uEITSA method adopts a fixed system time-step in the overall simulation, which makes it challenging to balance simulation accuracy and efficiency. Therefore, a system time-step adjustment strategy is proposed in this paper to optimize the uEITSA method, implemented in the open-source Simulation Toolkit for Electrical Power Systems (STEPS). Firstly, the system time-step adjustment strategy based on elementary transfer function blocks (ETFBs) is introduced. Secondly, the implementation of the proposed strategy in STEPS software is described in detail. Finally, the simplified Shandong Power Grid model is tested to demonstrate that the proposed system time-step adjustment strategy can improve simulation efficiency without jeopardizing simulation accuracy.