Justified fault-ride-through requirements for wind turbines in power systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1555-1563

  Rahmann, C ^a   Haubrich, H J ^a   Moser, A ^a   Palma Behnke, R ^b   Vargas, L ^b   Salles, M B C ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fault ride through capability; grid code; transient stability; voltage stability support; wind power; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATORS; FAULT RIDE-THROUGH; FIXED SPEED INDUCTION GENERATOR; GRID CODES; INSTALLED CAPACITY; INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES; ISOLATED POWER SYSTEM; PENETRATION LEVEL; POWER INJECTION; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS; POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; WIND POWER PENETRATION;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79960891532     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2093546     Document Type: Article

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