An ADMM-based power system partitioned black-start and parallel restoration method considering high-penetrated renewable energy

The large-scale blackouts after natural disasters have attracted much more concern these days. When a blackout occurs in a power transmission system, the whole system will be decomposed into several sub-systems and take much more time to recover. As the capacity of renewable energy continues to increase, the difficulties of the black start and restoration for a power transmission system also keep intensifying. To this end, this paper proposes a power transmission system partitioned black-start and restoration method while applying renewable energy sources to support and improve the recovery process. We first establish the power system black-start and restoration model and linearize the power flow constraints and unit generation constraints. Considering the power system can be decomposed into several sub-systems with high-capacity renewable energy sources, we propose a system partitioning method and a two-level parallel restoration model. The model realizes the independent restoration of each sub-system and is solved by the alternating direction multipliers method. Case studies on a modified New England 39-bus power system and a practical power system verify that the proposed method can offer high feasibility and effectiveness for power transmission systems with high-penetrated renewable energy sources when facing a large-scale blackout.