A comparison among reactive power compensation strategies in wind farm power plant

Author

Calderaro, Vito ; Galdi, Vincenzo ; Conio, Gaspare ; Fusco, Roberta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Squirrel cage induction generators are consolidated technologies for wind energy. Nevertheless, they do not perform voltage regulation and absorb reactive power from the utility grid. In this paper a comparison among three different reactive power compensation strategies is presented: centralized, fully decentralized and partially decentralized. The last is the proposal developed in the paper where an optimization problem is solved to individualize optimal sizing and location of reactive power centres. The problem is tested by a case study on a real test grid and encouraging results are presented.

Keywords

optimisation; power grids; reactive power; squirrel cage motors; wind power plants; centralized strategies; fully decentralized strategies; optimal sizing; optimization problem; partially decentralized strategies; reactive power centres; reactive power compensation strategies; real test grid; squirrel cage induction generators; utility grid; wind energy; wind farm power plant; Proposals; Tin; Xenon; capacitor compensated distribution lines; genetic algorithms; induction generator; reactive power control; wind power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0687-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPECS.2013.6713096

Filename

6713096