Decentralized control strategy of air-conditioning loads for primary frequency regulation based on environment information

The existing research on orderly participation of air conditioning load in frequency regulation needs a relatively complete communication architecture, but it cannot be achieved on a large scale in practice. This paper proposes a decentralized control method for the air-conditioning load control to participate in the power system primary frequency regulation, so that the air-conditioning loads can respond to system frequency deviation in an orderly manner without communication. Firstly, the triggering frequency is set to prevent the air-conditioning load from being over- or under-adjusted based on the frequency response interval, which is determined according to the outdoor temperature. Secondly, the response priority is arranged according to the holding time to ensure an orderly response of the air-conditioning load without communication. Finally, a simulation example of a thousand air-conditioning loads under different control strategy proves that the proposed method can achieve better frequency regulation effect.