Grid integration of wind farms using SVC and STATCOM

41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2006, Conference Procedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 157-161

  Foster, S ^a   Xu, L ^a   Fox, B ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATORS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; IMPACT STRENGTH; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; WIND POWER;

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCES; FIXED-SPEED INDUCTION GENERATORS; GRID INTEGRATION; INTERNATIONAL (CO); NETWORK FAULTS; NETWORK STRENGTH; POWER ENGINEERING; REACTIVE CURRENTS; REACTIVE POWER SUPPORT; STABILITY PROBLEMS; STATCOM (STATIC SHUNT COMPENSATOR); STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); STATIC VAR COMPENSATOR (SVC); WIND FARMS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 46849092588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UPEC.2006.367734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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