Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea...
by elfchief on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:35PM
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I don't know for a fact how they manage it, but I bet the feedback is slow enough (those generators are heavy, and it probably takes a few cycles to even accurately measure a change) that they might not have to do much in the way of actively managing that feedback. The system will oscillate a bit (as it did in that video), but there's nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as it's within a certain set of limits.
(And really, the load changes are typically more gradual. Even "everyone just got home from work" is a fairly spread out event, compared to, say, the sudden loss of a few hundred MW of generating capacity...)
Do you know how the power plant's control loops are tuned? It seems like just tuning your plant to be properly damped isn't enough, because there's also lots of feedback from other power plants.