Trends in wind power technology and grid code requirements

Author

Arulampalam, A. ; Ramtharan, G. ; Jenkins, N. ; Ramachandaramurthy, V.K. ; Ekanayake, J.B. ; Strbac, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Peradeniya Univ., Peradeniya

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

134

Abstract

Developments in wind turbine technology are facilitating the increase of power generation capacity from renewable energy sources. However an electrical utility grid is generally unable to accept a large amount of wind power without imposing strict conditions. Voltage fluctuation, reactive power compensation and fault ride through are the main areas of concern. Variable speed generators, STATCOMs and crowbar circuits are used to comply with grid code requirements. This paper discusses a number of wind turbine topologies and grid code requirements for large scale integration of wind power.

Keywords

power generation faults; power grids; reactive power; renewable energy sources; wind turbines; STATCOM; crowbar circuit; electrical utility grid; fault ride; grid code requirement; power generation capacity; reactive power compensation; renewable energy sources; speed generator; voltage fluctuation; wind power technology; wind turbine topology; Automatic voltage control; Circuit faults; Mesh generation; Reactive power; Renewable energy resources; Voltage fluctuations; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Wind power technology; grid code requirements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems, 2007. ICIIS 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penadeniya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1151-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1152-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2007.4579161

Filename

4579161