Experience with voltage control from large offshore windfarms: The danish case

Wind Energy

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 692-711

  Akhmatov, V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Grid connection; Offshore windfarms; Power grid; Reactive power control; Voltage control; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; POWER CONTROL; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANTS; REACTIVE POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TRANSMISSIONS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIND TURBINES;

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER UNITS; GRID CONNECTIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT; POWER GRIDS; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OPERATORS; VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY CONTROL; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; POWER PLANT; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70350729296     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.323     Document Type: Review

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