Title :
Kinetic Energy of Wind-Turbine Generators for System Frequency Support
Author :
Keung, Ping-Kwan ; Li, Pei ; Banakar, Hadi ; Ooi, Boon Teck
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC
Abstract :
As wind power penetration increases and fossil plants are retired, it is feared that there will be insufficient kinetic energy (KE) from the plants to support the system frequency. This paper shows the fear is groundless because the high inertias (H cong 4 seconds) of wind turbine-generators (WTGs) can be integrated to provide frequency support during generation outage.
Keywords :
electric generators; wind power plants; wind turbines; fossil plants; kinetic energy; system frequency support; wind power penetration; wind-turbine generators; Frequency control; stability; wind power generation;
Journal_Title :
Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Conference_Location :
12/16/2008 12:00:00 AM
DOI :
10.1109/TPWRS.2008.2004827
