STATCOM impact study on the integration of a large wind farm into a weak loop power system

2006 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1266-1272

  Han, Chong ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Baran, Mesut ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a   Litzenberger, Wayne ^b   Anderson, Loren ^b   Johnson, Anders ^b   Edris, Abdel Aty ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BPA   (United States)

^c ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact study; STATCOM; Voltage fluctuation; Voltage stability; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DYNAMIC IMPACTS; FIELD DATA; GREEN ELECTRICITY; IMPACT STUDY; QV CURVE; RAPID GROWTH; RENEWABLE WIND ENERGY; STABILITY ISSUES; STATCOM; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATION; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS; WIND FARM; WIND INDUCTION GENERATOR;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; FOSSIL FUELS; POWER QUALITY; POWER TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIND POWER;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70049103818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2006.296488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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