Abstract
Automatic generation control (AGC), is a major control function within a utility’s energy control center, whose purpose is the tracking of load variations while maintaining system frequency, net tie-line interchanges, and optimal generation levels close to scheduled (or specified) values. When several utilities are interconnected, each will perform its own AGC independently of the others. This decentralized control system has worked quite well since its introduction in the fifties, in spite of the fact that at that time, the only control theory tools available were those of classical frequency-domain, single-input single-output, systems. Thus AGC is a true predecessor of the much highlighted recent approaches of hierarchical modern control theory.
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Debs, A.S. (1988). Automatic Generation Control. In: Modern Power Systems Control and Operation. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1073-0_6
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