Title :
Operational characteristics of a 27-MW wind farm from experimental data
Author :
Chicco, Gianfranco ; Di Leo, Paolo ; Ilie, Irinel-Sorin ; Spertino, Filippo
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. Elettr., Politec. di Torino, Turin
Abstract :
The diffusion of wind systems is emerging in several countries, with solutions of different type and size. The analysis of experimental results gathered on-site is essential to understand the characteristics of the wind systems and of their interconnection to the grid. The basic aspects of the experimental analyses concern availability of the wind resource, efficiency of the plants, and power quality of the grid connected wind system. This paper illustrates and discusses the results obtained from monitoring a 27-MW wind farm with SCADA systems and network analysers. A dedicated procedure for efficiency evaluation of the wind turbines is presented, whose results underline evident mismatches between the actual performance and the data provided by the manufacturer.
Keywords :
SCADA systems; network analysers; power system measurement; wind power plants; wind turbines; SCADA systems; grid connected wind system; network analysers; operational characteristics; power 27 MW; wind farm; wind turbines; Availability; Current transformers; Power quality; Power transformers; SCADA systems; Voltage fluctuations; Voltage transformers; Wind energy; Wind farms; Wind turbines; availability; efficiency; experimental analysis; flicker; power quality; wind systems;
Conference_Titel :
Electrotechnical Conference, 2008. MELECON 2008. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Ajaccio
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1632-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1633-2
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.2008.4618488
