Abstract:An effective method to evaluate contribution degree of ultra - low - frequency oscillation ( ULFO) for hydraulic turbine based on the least square fitting method is realized. And a suppression scheme for ULFO is presented. The state subspace representation is identified and governor parameters of hydraulic turbine are optimized by an improved particle swarm optimization. Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed suppression scheme for ULFO are verified with an improved EPRI 36 - nodes system.