This investigation is part of the EU FP7 project “Distributed Control of Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farms”. The overall goal in this project is to develop wind farm controllers giving power set points to individual turbines in the farm in order to minimise mechanical loads and optimise power. One control configuration examined is distributed control where turbines only communicate with their nea...

This paper analyses the effect of replacing existing synchronous generators equipped with power system stabilizers (PSS) by DFIG based wind farms on the damping of power system oscillations in a multi-machine power system. A power system stabiliser was designed to enhance the capability of DFIG to damp power systems oscillations. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed controller are dem...

Over the last two decades, fostered by strong financial incentives, wind power in Germany has seen a rapid market diffusion. The promotion policy in the form of guaranteed feed-in tariffs for renewable energies such as wind power often rewarded investors in these technologies with extraordinary economic returns. However, today’s investment decisions in large-scale onshore wind power projects in...

The use of offshore wind farms has been growing in recent years, as steadier and higher wind speeds can be generally found over water compared to land. Moreover, as human activities tend to complicate the construction of land wind farms, offshore locations, which can be found more easily near densely populated areas, can be seen as an attractive choice. However, the cost of an offshore wind far...

As an effort to promote wind power industry in Korea, Korea South-East Power Corporation has been developing 22MW YeungHeung wind farm consisting of nine 2 to 3MW wind turbines supplied by three manufacturers. To maximize its availability and reliability and to solve the difficulty of operating three kinds of SCADA systems, Korea Electric Power Corporation has been developing a condition monito...

Wind power generation is characterized by its variability and uncertainty in the wind speed. Due to the irregular nature of wind power production, accurate prediction of wind speed is essential for its application in optimum power flow, transmission congestion, economic load dispatch and electricity market clearing prices. Wind speed of a wind farm is affected by conditions of the environment i...

the renewable energy resources such as wind power have recently attracted more researchers’ attention. it is mainly due to the aggressive energy consumption, high pollution and cost of fossil fuels. in this era, the future fluctuations of these time series should be predicted to increase the reliability of the power network. in this paper, the dynamic characteristics and short-term predictabili...

Short-term wind prediction over different time steps is vital for wind farms in operation for various applications. Considering the complexity of atmospheric processes governing wind, time series models are preferred over physical models for wind prediction. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), which perform a non-linear mapping between inputs and outputs, provide an alternative approach for wind...