Frequency Regulation and Oscillation Damping Contributions of Variable-Speed Wind Generators in the U.S. Eastern Interconnection (EI)

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 951-958

  Liu, Yong ^a   Gracia, Joe R ^b   King, Thomas J ^b   Liu, Yilu ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Interconnection (EI); frequency regulation; inter area oscillation damping; variable speed wind generators

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; DAMPING; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

EASTERN INTERCONNECTION (EI); ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; FREQUENCY REGULATIONS; INTER-AREA OSCILLATIONS; OSCILLATION DAMPING; SYSTEM DYNAMIC MODELS; VARIABLE SPEED WIND GENERATOR; WIND POWER PENETRATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 85027947602     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2318591     Document Type: Article

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