A Review of the State of the Art of Power Electronics for Wind Turbines

Author

Chen, Zhe ; Guerrero, Josep M. ; Blaabjerg, Frede

Author_Institution

Inst. of Energy Technol., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

Volume

24

Issue

8

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1859

Lastpage

1875

Abstract

This paper reviews the power electronic applications for wind energy systems. Various wind turbine systems with different generators and power electronic converters are described, and different technical features are compared. The electrical topologies of wind farms with different wind turbines are summarized and the possible uses of power electronic converters with wind farms are shown. Finally, the possible methods of using the power electronic technology for improving wind turbine performance in power systems to meet the main grid connection requirements are discussed.

Keywords

power convertors; power electronics; power grids; wind power plants; wind turbines; electrical topologies; grid connection; power electronic converters; wind energy system; wind farms; wind turbines; Mesh generation; Power electronics; Power generation; Power system dynamics; Power systems; Reactive power control; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind farms; Wind turbines; Fault ride-through; grid connection; power electronics converters; reactive power compensation; wind energy conversion; wind farms; wind turbine control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPEL.2009.2017082

Filename

5200696