  In recent years, transmission system operators have started requesting
converter-interfaced generators (CIGs) to participate in grid services such as
power oscillation damping (POD). As power systems are prone to topology changes
because of connection and disconnection of generators and electrical lines, one
of the most important requirements in the POD controller design is to account
for these changes and to deal with them by using either adaptive or robust
approaches. The robust approach is usually preferred by system operators
because of the fixed structure of the controller. In this paper, a procedure to
design POD controllers for CIG-based power plants that takes into consideration
all possible network configurations is presented. This procedure is based on
frequency-response techniques, so it is suitable for the commissioning in newly
installed power plants, even in those cases when a detailed small-signal model
of the system is not available. This procedure can be used to damp critical
system modes by using active power, reactive power, or both power components
simultaneously. The proposed procedure is applied to the design of the POD
controller for a CIG-based power plant connected to the IEEE 39 Bus system.
Simulations performed in Matlab and SimPowerSystems are used to validate the
proposed design procedure.
