Control of a wind farm based on synchronous generators with a central HVDC-VSC converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1632-1640

  Gomis Bellmunt, Oriol ^a   Junyent Ferré, Adrià ^a,b   Sumper, Andreas ^a,b   Bergas Jané, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

Author keywords

High voltage direct current (HVDC); offshore wind power; variable frequency wind farm; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONTROL SCHEMES; ELECTRICAL FREQUENCY; FAULT RIDE-THROUGH; HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT; OFFSHORE WIND POWER; SYSTEM FREQUENCY; VARIABLE FREQUENCIES; WIND FARM; WIND SPEED;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; POWER CONVERTERS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 79960892289     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2091654     Document Type: Article

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