Development and simulation of dynamic control strategies for wind farms

The authors show that: (a) with reliable prediction of low variance in the wind velocity, modern wind farms have the wherewithal to produce regulated power in the next hour; (b) when the conditions for producing regulated power are not predicted, the wind farms may opt to use the tracking mode which tracks the slowly time-varying, non-turbulent component of wind power and (c) the proposed control system has the capability to divert some of the wind farm power to implement dynamic performance enhancement strategies, for system damping. The capabilities are demonstrated by simulations of a wind farm made up of 24 wind-turbine generators using one-hour-long wind velocity data.