Real-time simulation of a doubly fed induction generator wind turbine on a new DSP based hardware platform

Large wind farms are among the largest players among renewable sources. Recent developments bring new solutions for wind turbine generator systems and for interconnection with the grid. However, the impact of wind farms on the grid must be assessed, prior deployment, in a realistic, credible way, particularly to validate energy management and assess stability conditions. The institute for Automation of Complex power System and the institute for Power Generation and Storage of the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen together with AixControl, a local company producing DSP based platforms for fast prototyping of controllers for power electronics applications, are developing the hardware and software infrastructure to allow for the real-time simulation of large wind farms. In this paper we present the real-time simulation of a doubly fed wind generation system performed on the first prototype of DSP-cluster developed.