Assessment of wind turbines impact on the power quality of autonomous weak grids

Author

Ladakakos, P.D. ; Ioannides, M.G. ; Koulouvari, M.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

14-18 Oct 1998

Firstpage

900

Abstract

Wind turbines´ impact on the power quality of autonomous weak power grids is investigated in terms of variations in the frequency and the voltage, flicker and harmonics. Laboratory measurements on a wind-diesel hardware simulator are presented for various operational scenarios with different characteristics of the wind speed and the wind turbine. In order to assess the effect of the different parameters of a wind power plant to the power quality of an existing diesel powered system the followed methodology was to compare the power system´s behaviour operating with and without wind turbines. Results for all scenarios considering all power quality characteristics are presented and discussed

Keywords

harmonic distortion; power supply quality; power system harmonics; power system measurement; wind power plants; wind turbines; autonomous weak power grids; flicker; harmonic impact assessment; measurements; operational scenarios; wind power plant; wind turbines; wind-diesel hardware simulator; Frequency; Hardware; Laboratories; Power grids; Power quality; Power system harmonics; Power system simulation; Velocity measurement; Voltage fluctuations; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Harmonics and Quality of Power Proceedings, 1998. Proceedings. 8th International Conference On

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5105-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHQP.1998.760162

Filename

760162