Comparative study of wind farm stabilization using variable speed generator and FACTS device

Author

Okedu, K.E. ; Muyeen, S.M. ; Takahashi, Rion ; Tamura, Junji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kitami Inst. of Technol., Kitami, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

19-22 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

572

Abstract

Recently, the grid codes require taking into account the reactive power of the wind farm in order to contribute to the network stability during grid fault, thus operating the wind farm as active compensator devices. This paper presents a comparative study of stabilizing a wind farm with variable speed wind turbine generator system that use doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) as the wind generator and a flexible ac transmission system (FACTS) like the static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). Simulation results show that the wind farm could be effectively stabilized with both systems, but at a reduced cost with the DFIG system.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; flexible AC transmission systems; power generation faults; power grids; power system stability; reactive power; static VAr compensators; turbogenerators; wind power plants; wind turbines; DFIG system; FACTS device; STATCOM; active compensator devices; doubly fed induction generator; flexible AC transmission system; grid codes; grid fault; network stability; reactive power; static synchronous compensator; variable speed wind turbine generator system; wind farm stabilization; Automatic voltage control; Circuit faults; Converters; Generators; Reactive power; Wind farms; DFIG; Grid fault; Induction generator; STATCOM; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-118-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752609

Filename

5752609