Voltage stabilization for wind generation integration in western Texas grid

Author

Bostrom, Anders ; Hassink, Paul ; Thesing, Michael ; Halonen, Mikael ; Grunbaum, Rolf

Author_Institution

FACTS, ABB, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

29-31 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The McCamey Area is a sparsely populated part of western Texas, where the penetration of wind power production to date has grown to 750 MW and is expected to grow well over 1 GW in the next few years. To improve and maintain system stability, three Static Var Compensators (SVCs) have been installed in the power grid, owned and operated by American Electric Power (AEP). This paper presents the SVC design and control features developed to ensure reliable reactive support to the wind farm power export at steady state conditions as well as during transient disturbances in the network.

Keywords

power grids; power system transient stability; static VAr compensators; wind power plants; American Electric Power; network transient disturbances; power grid; static Var compensators; system stability; voltage stabilization; western Texas grid; wind farm power export; wind generation integration; wind power production penetration; Maintenance; Mesh generation; Power grids; Power system stability; Power systems; Production; Static VAr compensators; Voltage; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Direct Connection; Reactive Power Compensation; Static Shunt Device (SSD); Static Var Compensator (SVC); Static Var System (SVS); Thyristor Controlled Reactor (TCR); voltage stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources Into the Power Delivery System, 2009 CIGRE/IEEE PES Joint Symposium

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4860-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-85873-080-3

Type

conf

Filename

5211206