Retired electric vehicle battery to reduce the load frequency control oscillation in the micro grid system

The potential of a retired electric vehicle battery (REVB) is its capacity to provide backup power supply to the power system grid. This paper proposed energy storage system (ESS) based on REVB called retired battery energy storage system (retired BESS) to tackle the intermittent of renewable energy source such as wind turbine and dynamic load change. To examine the efficacy of the proposed technique, the load frequency control (LFC) of microgrid (MG) system is utilized in this study and the proposed technique is compared to conventional LFC controller, PI controllers, superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), and a new electric vehicle battery. The kind of retired BESS cell used in this study is Li-ion nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) type with a state of charge as of 70%. The capacity of each cell for retired BESS is 38 Ah. From the simulation result, the use of retired BESS can reduce frequency oscillation, compress the settling time to reach steady state, and maintain the robustness of the MG system. A retired BESS has a minimum error performance index value compared to conventional LFC, proportional integral (PI) controller, and SMES.