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Grid Support Capabilities of Wind Turbines

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Handbook of Wind Power Systems

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Wind power has gained a significant penetration level in several power systems all over the world. Due to this reason modern wind turbines are requested to contribute to power system support. Power system operators have thus introduced grid codes, which specify a set of requirements for wind turbines, such as fault ride-through and reactive power supply during voltage sags. To date different wind turbine concepts exist on the market comprising different control features in order to provide ancillary services to the power system. In the first place the present chapter emphasizes the most important issues related to wind power grid integration. Then different wind turbine concepts are characterized and their grid support capabilities are analysed and compared. Simulation cases are presented in which the respective wind turbine concepts are subjected to a voltage dip specified in a grid code.

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  1. Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering, Postfach 30 02 40, 70442, Stuttgart, Germany

    Gabriele Michalke

  2. Department of Wind Energy, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 49, Roskilde, Denmark

    Anca Daniela Hansen

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  1. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

  2. Division of Economics and Business Engineering Hall, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA

    Steffen Rebennack

  3. Centro Empresarial Rio Praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Mario V. F. Pereira

  4. EnerCoRD - Energy Consulting, Research & Development, Athens, Greece

    Niko A. Iliadis

  5. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Vijay Pappu

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Michalke, G., Hansen, A.D. (2013). Grid Support Capabilities of Wind Turbines. In: Pardalos, P., Rebennack, S., Pereira, M., Iliadis, N., Pappu, V. (eds) Handbook of Wind Power Systems. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41080-2_16

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