The Wind Farm Aggregation Impact on Power Quality

Author

Bialasiewicz, Jan T. ; Muljadi, Eduard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Colorado Univ., Denver, CO

fYear

2006

fDate

6-10 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

4195

Lastpage

4200

Abstract

This paper explores the effects of wind farm power fluctuations on the power network. A dynamic simulation of a wind farm is performed and the spatial distribution of the wind turbines is considered. In a wind farm, many wind turbines feed power into the power grid at the point of common coupling. The power fluctuation from one turbine may cancel that of another, which effectively rectifies the power fluctuation of the overall wind farm. The effect of power fluctuations is quantified by measuring the flicker and the voltage variation for different case studies. We took a conservative approach to explore a wind farm that consists mainly of stall-controlled wind turbines with fixed frequency induction generators and a specified grid with a known short circuit capacity

Keywords

asynchronous generators; power grids; power supply quality; wind turbines; frequency induction generators; point of common coupling; power fluctuation; power grid; power network; power quality; short circuit capacity; spatial distribution; stall-controlled wind turbines; wind farm aggregation impact; wind turbines; Feeds; Frequency; Induction generators; Power grids; Power measurement; Power quality; Power system dynamics; Voltage fluctuations; Wind farms; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0390-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2006.347614

Filename

4153162