Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a continuing increase in the wind turbine (WT) size and penetration level into the grid, revealing critical challenges to sustainable market development and urgent demands of low voltage ride-through, load reduction, and optimal operation. This paper presents an overview on gridfriendly WTs and relevant technologies for control and monitoring. The development trends are discussed as well to explore potential approaches for optimizing WT systems. The main body contains three parts: the "grid-friendly" criterion and a prototype, the overview and suggestions for WT controller design concerning load reduction and power optimization, and suggested solutions for wind power monitoring systems. This paper is expected to be a reference for extending the knowledge of grid-friendly WTs and optimizing the performance of future large-scale wind power systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1979-1986 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 20 May 2014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 51207007, the China Scholarship Council under Grant 201308110136, and the National Key Basic Research Program of China under Grant 2012CB215202.
Keywords
- Control
- Grid friendly
- Monitoring
- Wind power