STATCOM with energy storage for smoothing intermittent wind farm power

Author

Baran, Mesut E. ; Teleke, Sercan ; Anderson, Loren ; Huang, Alex ; Bhattacharya, Subhashish ; Atcitty, Stanley

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, NC State Univ., Raleigh, NC

fYear

2008

fDate

20-24 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, STATCOM with battery energy storage system (BESS) is proposed for smoothing intermittent power output of a large wind farm. The main advantage of the system is that it can inject both real power (by charging/discharging the BESS) and the reactive power to the system. Simulations based on an actual wind farm data indicate that indeed with the proposed control strategy the power output of the wind farm can be smoothed to facilitate 1/2 h dispatching of the wind farm. Also, the reactive power compensation provided by the STATCOM helps to smooth out the fast voltage variations at the interconnecting bus.

Keywords

battery storage plants; energy storage; static VAr compensators; wind power plants; STATCOM; battery energy storage system; interconnecting bus; reactive power compensation; smoothing intermittent power output; wind farms; Automatic voltage control; Batteries; Capacitors; Energy storage; Fluctuations; Power quality; Power smoothing; Reactive power; Smoothing methods; Wind farms; STATCOM; Wind Power; control; energy storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

1932-5517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1905-0

Electronic_ISBN

1932-5517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2008.4596546

Filename

4596546