A review of enabling technologies for large wind power plants to comply with recent grid codes

Author

Mohseni, Mansour ; Islam, S.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

With the ever increasing penetration of wind power in modern electric networks, international grid codes have been constantly under revision for the last decade. Emerging grid codes enforce stringent regulations on large wind power plants to 1) ride through various fault conditions, 2) provide reactive power support to the network, and 3) participate in the primary frequency support and power oscillations damping. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of the enabling technologies that have been suggested for various fixed- and variable-speed wind generators to comply with the latest international grid code requirements.

Keywords

codes; load regulation; oscillations; power generation control; power generation faults; power grids; reactive power; wind power plants; electric network; international grid code requirement; literature review; power oscillation damping; primary frequency support; reactive power network support; stringent regulation enforcement; variable-speed wind generator; various fixed-wind generator; wind power plant; Induction generators; Power system stability; Reactive power; Wind farms; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Grid code regulations; enabling technologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia (ISGT), 2011 IEEE PES

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0873-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0874-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2011.6167126

Filename

6167126