Flicker mitigation by reactive power control in wind farm with doubly fed induction generators

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 285-296

  Girbau Llistuella, Francesc ^a   Sumper, Andreas ^a,b   Díaz González, Francisco ^b   Galceran Arellano, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Doubly fed induction generator; Flicker; Mitigation by reactive power; Smoothing the fast voltage variations; Variable speed wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTION GRID; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR (DFIG); FLICKER EMISSION; FLICKER MITIGATION; TURBINE CONTROLLERS; VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINES; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLICKERING; REACTIVE POWER; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84886266239     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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