A novel Modulated Power Filter Compensator scheme for standalone wind energy utilization systems

Renewable energy sources have the ability to provide electric power in rural areas whenever available. Although it is cheap, clean and abundant, the variation of output power with the variation of wind speed can cause significant power quality issues, especially in the case of a standalone generation system. This paper studies a network presenting a rural load, such as a small village, fed from a wind driven separately excited (SE) squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG). The effect of wind speed on the power quality is illustrated via simulation. The introduction of the modulated power filter compensator (MPFC) to the network establishes a significant improvement to the power quality. The proposed MPFC is a cheap and robust FACTS based device. It is controlled via a tri-loop dynamic error-driven PI controller. This scheme proved its ability to introduce a significant improvement which is illustrated via comparing the simulation results of the studied network with and without the MPFC.