Applying a STATCOM for stability improvement to an existing wind farm with fixed-speed induction generators

IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Qi, L ^a,b   Langston, J ^a,b   Steurer, M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault ride through; High fidelity simulations; RTDS; Stability; STATCOM; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY RESOURCES; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FARMS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; POWER TRANSMISSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SPEED; SYSTEM STABILITY; TESTING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS; WEIGHT CONTROL; WELL TESTING;

21ST CENTURY; BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION; DYNAMIC COMPENSATION; DYNAMIC TESTING; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; FAULT RIDE THROUGH; FAULT RIDE THROUGH CAPABILITY; FIXED-SPEED INDUCTION GENERATORS; HARDWARE IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION; HIGH FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; HIGH-FIDELITY; INDUCTION GENERATOR; POWER-VOLTAGE; REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RTDS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STABILITY; STABILITY IMPROVEMENT; STATCOM; TRANSIENT MODELLING; VOLTAGE COLLAPSE; VOLTAGE STABILITY; WIND FARM; WIND FARMS; WIND POWER SYSTEMS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 52349099239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2008.4596894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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