Operational characteristics of a 27-MW wind farm from experimental data

Author

Chicco, Gianfranco ; Di Leo, Paolo ; Ilie, Irinel-Sorin ; Spertino, Filippo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Elettr., Politec. di Torino, Turin

fYear

2008

fDate

5-7 May 2008

Firstpage

520

Lastpage

526

Abstract

The diffusion of wind systems is emerging in several countries, with solutions of different type and size. The analysis of experimental results gathered on-site is essential to understand the characteristics of the wind systems and of their interconnection to the grid. The basic aspects of the experimental analyses concern availability of the wind resource, efficiency of the plants, and power quality of the grid connected wind system. This paper illustrates and discusses the results obtained from monitoring a 27-MW wind farm with SCADA systems and network analysers. A dedicated procedure for efficiency evaluation of the wind turbines is presented, whose results underline evident mismatches between the actual performance and the data provided by the manufacturer.

Keywords

SCADA systems; network analysers; power system measurement; wind power plants; wind turbines; SCADA systems; grid connected wind system; network analysers; operational characteristics; power 27 MW; wind farm; wind turbines; Availability; Current transformers; Power quality; Power transformers; SCADA systems; Voltage fluctuations; Voltage transformers; Wind energy; Wind farms; Wind turbines; availability; efficiency; experimental analysis; flicker; power quality; wind systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2008. MELECON 2008. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Ajaccio

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1632-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1633-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2008.4618488

Filename

4618488