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Harmonics in Offshore Wind Power Plants

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This chapter presents a description of nowadays large offshore wind power plants (OWPPs) with widespread usage of power electronic devices (PEDs). Selected challenges and opportunities, related to this Industrial Ph.D. project will be described. The overview given in this chapter provides the information needed for defining the scope and expected deliverables from the Ph.D. project, which will be presented in the following chapter.

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Glasdam, J.B. (2016). Introduction. In: Harmonics in Offshore Wind Power Plants. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26476-9_1

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