How the Lake Bonney wind farm met ESCOSA's, NEMMCO's, and ElectraNet's rigorous interconnecting requirements

Transmission and Distribution Exposition Conference: 2008 IEEE PES Powering Toward the Future, PIMS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Diaz De Leon II, John A ^a   Kehrli, Bud ^a   Zalay, Andy ^b  

^a AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b National Power and Babcock Brown   (United States)

Author keywords

D VAR system; Grid code; High voltage ride through; Interconnection requirements; Low voltage ride through; STATCOM; Voltage regulation; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

GRID CODES; HIGH VOLTAGE; INTERCONNECTION REQUIREMENTS; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; STATCOM; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; VALUE ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 77950965535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TDC.2008.4517196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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