The impact of data time resolution on long-term voltage stability assessment: a case study with offshore wind-solar hybrid power plants

In this study, the impact of data time resolution on long-term voltage stability assessment of a power grid with high penetration of wind-solar hybrid power plants is investigated. Historical and synthetic wind data as well as solar irradiance are used to calculate power output from hypothetical offshore wind-solar hybrid power plants, geographically located off the coast of Massachusetts, USA. The results show that using hourly input data can overestimate the long-term voltage stability, compared with using minute data. However, the relative difference in terms of voltage mean value and standard deviation is marginal whilst the most significant difference is the intensity of the voltage fluctuations. The main drawback of using high-resolution data is the execution time, increasing proportionally with the number of time steps. Thus, it is argued that the choice of da ta time resolution should be based on the aspects of long-term voltage stability and the size of the power grid to be studied.