Evaluation of hub concept for wind turbines

Author

Pappu, Santosh R. ; Bayne, Stephen B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

24-25 Feb. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper simulates the transient response of three wind farms interconnected, rated 9MW each. Each wind farm consists of six Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) turbines rated at 1.5MW each, interfaced with power electronics on the rotor side. The three wind farms connected to the grid are built and modelled in MATLAB-Simulink. With the rapid development in Generation Interconnect Requests and development of the Hub concept, it is necessary to model the interconnection of wind farms to study the transient characteristics. The three wind farms are interconnected at a single point on the transmission line to increase efficiency and reliability. Analysis on voltage stability of wind farms due to faults on the neighbouring wind farm was done. A STATCOM was installed at the terminals of each wind farm to provide additional voltage stability and reactive power capabilities.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; power electronics; power generation reliability; power grids; power transmission lines; rotors; static VAr compensators; wind power plants; wind turbines; DFIG; MATLAB-Simulink; STATCOM; doubly fed induction generator; generation interconnect requests and development; hub concept evaluation; power 1.5 MW; power 9 MW; power electronics; reactive power; rotor; transient characteristics; transmission line; voltage stability analysis; wind farms efficiency; wind farms reliability; wind farms transient response; wind turbines; Mathematical model; Power transmission lines; Reactive power; Transient analysis; Wind farms; Wind speed; Wind turbines; DFIG; Hub Concept; MATLAB-Simulink; Wind Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Champaign, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1681-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1682-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECI.2012.6184582

Filename

6184582