Wind plant reactive power and voltage compliance with grid codes

Author

Kunte, R.S. ; Pallem, C. ; Mueller, D.

Author_Institution

EnerNex LLC, Knoxville, TN, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

One important aspect of wind turbine controls is the ability to control the power factor and/or the plant system voltage, in order to comply with interconnection agreements. There are references readily available that discuss control issues regarding the dynamic performance for wind plants, but very little information has been published regarding the overall wind plant operation towards meeting the interconnection requirements for reactive power and voltage control. This paper presents examples of different grid code requirements and how the turbine operation with either voltage or power factor control is used in practice. Some power flow simulation case results are given to illustrate these concepts, and how compliance is achieved at the point of interconnection.

Keywords

load flow control; power factor; power generation control; power grids; reactive power control; voltage control; wind power plants; wind turbines; grid codes; plant system voltage control; point of interconnection; power factor control; power flow simulation; voltage compliance; wind plant reactive power; wind power plants; wind turbine controls; Bandwidth; Capacitors; Integrated circuit interconnections; Reactive power; Voltage control; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Capacitor Banks; Interconnect agreement; Point of Interconnection (POI); Power Factor Control; Steady State Analysis; Voltage Control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1128-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEMWA.2012.6316359

Filename

6316359