Optimal design of CDM controller to frequency control of a realistic power system equipped with storage devices using grasshopper optimization algorithm.

This paper presents a new robust load frequency control (LFC) technique based on an optimal design of the coefficient diagram method (CDM) in a three area thermal power system equipped with redox flow batteries (RFB). In order to emphasize on a realistic power system and obtain an accurate insight, important nonlinearities due to generation rate constraint (GRC), governor dead band (GDB) and time delay (TD) were considered. The innovation of the proposed controller in this paper is the use of a hybrid intelligent combination of a decentralized CDM technique and optimization throughout its algebraic equations.