Grid compliant ac connection of large offshore wind farms using a statcom

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2007, EWEC 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1437-1445

  Chondrogiannis, Stamatios ^a   Barnes, Mike ^a   Osborne, Mark ^b   Yaofl, Liangzhong ^c   Bazargant, Masoud ^c   Johnson, Antony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GRID   (United Kingdom)

^c AREVA T&D   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COORDINATED CONTROL STRATEGY; GRID CONNECTIONS; POINT OF CONNECTION; REACTIVE COMPENSATION; REACTIVE POWER REQUIREMENT;

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84875281345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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