Voltage Regulation of Grid Connected Wind Farm Using STATCOM

Author

Tofigh, Mohammad Ali ; Rahim, Nasrudin Abd ; Kumaran, R Vigna

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents analysis of voltage regulation by using STATCOM to reduce voltage fluctuation in the grid connected wind farms. A STATCOM is installed at the main bus of power system network, point of common coupling, (PCC), which wind turbine generator systems (WTGS) or wind farm is connected to the power system. STATCOM technology is shown to mitigate voltage fluctuation and to improve power quality in the power system. This research concludes with the discussion of voltage regulation analysis and wind farm problem in power system network. In this research, PSCAD/EMTDC software is used to model and simulate the network.

Keywords

power grids; power supply quality; power system interconnection; static VAr compensators; voltage control; wind power plants; STATCOM; grid connected wind farm; main bus; point of common coupling; power quality; power system network; voltage fluctuation; voltage regulation; Automatic voltage control; PSCAD; Power generation; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Voltage control; Voltage fluctuations; Wind farms; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4812-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4813-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2010.5449284

Filename

5449284