Title :
Wind farm reactive power output optimization for loss reduction and voltage profile improvements
Author :
Zhao, J.J. ; Li, X. ; Hao, J.T. ; Zhang, C.L. ; Lu, J.P.
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Transm. & Distrib. Equip. & Power Syst. Safety & New Technol., Chongqing Univ., Chongqing, China
Abstract :
In recent years, the number of small size wind farms used as DG sources located within the distribution system are rapidly increasing. In this paper, wind farm made up with doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) is proposed as the continuous reactive power source to support system voltage control due to the reactive power control capability of DFIG. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) is utilized to find wind farm optimal reactive power output for distribution system losses reduction and voltage profiles improvement. Finally, the three feeder distribution system is used as a test case to evaluate the algorithm.
Keywords :
asynchronous generators; distribution networks; particle swarm optimisation; power control; power system control; reactive power; voltage control; wind power plants; DG sources; continuous reactive power source; doubly fed induction generators; feeder distribution system; loss reduction; particle swarm optimization; reactive power control; voltage control; voltage profile improvements; wind farm reactive power output optimization; Induction generators; Optical computing; Power system modeling; Reactive power; Reactive power control; Rotors; Voltage control; Wind energy generation; Wind farms; Wind turbines;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2009. IPEMC '09. IEEE 6th International
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3556-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3557-9
DOI :
10.1109/IPEMC.2009.5157548
