Development of distributed simulation platform for power systems and wind farms

The study of wind power system strongly relies on simulations in all kinds of methods. In industry, the feasibility and efficiency of wind power projects also will be verified by simulations at first. However, taking time cost and economy into consideration, simulations in large scales often sacrifice model details or computing precision in order to gain acceptable results in higher simulating speed and lower hardware costs. To balance the contradiction of costs and performance, in this paper, a novel distributed simulation platform based on PC network and Matlab is proposed. Compared with other simulation approaches, this platform can improve the speed of simulations in large scales without sacrificing details or precision largely. By means of connected computers and paralleled models, it becomes easier to study further about harmonics, control strategies in current experiment conditions. Through the data interfaces, the platform can import practical data to simulate environment situations, faults and devices, which makes the simulation much more close to reality and forms a test-bed for wind farms and power systems as well. Thus, The platform can connect to certain Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Energy Management System (EMS), etc. to realize non-real-time semi-physical simulation for wind farm and power system control researches.