A predictive power control of Doubly fed induction generator for wave energy converter in irregular waves

In last decades, renewable energy resources are considered as an alternative energy resource to the World´s excessive energy demand. An extremely abundant and promising source of energy exists in oceans. Currently, there are several wave energy converters to harness this energy. Some of them, as in tidal applications, use the Doubly-fed induction generator. This paper deals then with a predictive power control of this generator based Wave Energy Converter under irregular wave climate which is modeled as time series elevation from using Bretschneider spectra. In the proposed control approach, the predicted output power was calculated using a linearized state-space model. The DFIG-based WEC power tracking performances further illustrates the dynamic features of the proposed predictive power control approach.