Dynamic models of wind farms with fixed speed wind turbines

• Published in: Renewable energy Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 1203 - 1230
• Main Authors: Fernández, Luis M., Saenz, José Ramón, Jurado, Francisco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2006; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Aggregated wind turbines; Applied sciences; Energy; Equivalent model; Exact sciences and technology; Fixed speed wind turbines; Natural energy; Wind energy; Wind farms; Wind farms; Equivalent model; Fixed speed wind turbines; Aggregated wind turbines; Wind; Windfarm; Wind velocity; Wind generator; Wind energy; Electrical network; Numerical simulation; Models; Dynamic model; Wind power
• ISSN: 0960-1481; 1879-0682
• DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.06.011

The increasing wind power penetration on power systems requires the development of adequate wind farms models for representing the dynamic behaviour of wind farms on power systems. The behaviour of a wind farm can be represented by a detailed model including the modelling of all wind turbines and the wind farm electrical network. But this detailed model presents a high order model if a wind farm with high number of wind turbines is modelled and therefore the simulation time is long. The development of equivalent wind farm models enables the model order and the computation time to be reduced when the impact of wind farms on power systems is studied. In this paper, equivalent models of wind farms with fixed speed wind turbines are proposed by aggregating wind turbines into an equivalent wind turbine that operates on an equivalent wind farm electrical network. Two equivalent wind turbines have been developed: one for aggregated wind turbines with similar winds, and another for aggregated wind turbines under any incoming wind, even with different incoming winds. The proposed equivalent models provide high accuracy for representing the dynamic response of wind farm on power system simulations with an important reduction of model order and simulation time compare to that of the complete wind farm modelled by the detailed model.