scholarly journals Voltage Profile Analysis on a Grid with Power Injection from a Wind Farm

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7530
Author(s):  
Noah Serem ◽  
Josiah Munda ◽  
Lawrence Letting

Wind power penetration into the grid is increasing throughout the world due to centralized power generation constraints such as shortage of fossil fuel, need to reduce gas emissions, long transmission losses and need for more supply of electrical power. Connection of wind power into the grid results in power quality issues such as voltage profile changes and harmonics. This necessitates coming up with correction measures in order to meet power quality standards. This paper deals with the analysis of the effects of injecting wind power to the grid on voltage profile. Branch participation factors are used to analyze the sections of the grid where effects on voltage profile are highest due to wind power penetration. Reactive power-voltage sensitivity analysis is used to determine the buses that are more sensitive to the changes brought by the wind power injection. Two cases were considered for the injection of the wind power: IEEE 14 test bus system and IEEE 39 test bus system.

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3555
Author(s):  
Noah Serem ◽  
Lawrence K. Letting ◽  
Josiah Munda

Due to increase in integration of renewable energy into the grid and power quality issues arising from it, there is need for analysis and power improvement of such networks. This paper presents voltage profile, Q-V sensitivity analysis and Q-V curves analysis for a grid that is highly penetrated by renewable energy sources; solar PV, wind power and small hydro systems. Analysis is done on IEEE 39 bus test system with Wind power injection alone, PV power injection alone, with PV and wind power injection and with PV, wind and micro hydro power injection to the grid. The analysis is used to determine the buses where voltage stability improvement is needed. From the results, it was concluded that injection of the modeled wind power alone helped in stabilizing the voltage levels as determined from voltage profiles and reactive power margins. Replacing some of the conventional sources with PV power led to reduction of voltages for weak buses below the required standards. Injection of power from more than one renewable energy source helped in slightly improving the voltage levels. Distribution Static compensators (D-STATCOMs) were used to improve the voltage levels of the buses that were below the required standards.


2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2990-2993
Author(s):  
Chun Guang Tian ◽  
Ye Yuan ◽  
Zheng Jun Bi ◽  
Li Xia Cai ◽  
Xiao Juan Han

t is a powerful guarantee for the safe and stable operation of the grid to detect and study its characteristics such as the active power, the reactive power, the flicker and the harmonic. Dewetron5000 system and its software can be used to collect and analyze the experimental data of power system without getting the corresponding conclusion quickly, directly and clearly. In view of the above questions, the software has been developed to test the power quality for wind farm into the grid, the collected data after being processed by the secondary can display the situations of power quality and power regulation clearly and fast. The software has a very important role on the development of the test standard and system for wind power grid.


Author(s):  
Nazha Cherkaoui ◽  
Abdelaziz Belfqih ◽  
Faissal El Mariami ◽  
Jamal Boukherouaa ◽  
Abdelmajid Berdai

<p class="Default">Nowadays, the use of the wind energy has known an important increase because it is clean and cheap. However, many technical issues could occur due to the integration of wind power plants into power grids. As a result, many countries have published grid code requirements that new installed wind turbines have to satisfy in order to facilitate its intergration to electrical networks. Among those requirements, the wind farms must be able to participate to ancillary services for instance voltage regulation and reactive power control. Nevertheless, in case of small wind farms having not the necessary reactive power capability to contribute to reactive power support, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices could also be used to participate to reactive power support. In this paper, an optimization method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is presented. This method allows getting the optimal location and reactive power injection of both wind power plants (WPP) and synchronous var compensators (SVC) with the objective to improve the voltage profile and to minimize the active power losses. The IEEE 14 bus system and a 20 MW wind farm based doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) are used to validate the proposed algorithm. The simulation results are analysed and compared.</p>


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Mikkili ◽  
Anup Kumar Panda

Abstract Electrical power quality has been an important and growing problem because of the proliferation of nonlinear loads such as power electronic converters in typical power distribution systems in recent years. Particularly, voltage harmonics and power distribution equipment problems result from current harmonics produced by nonlinear loads. The Electronic equipment like, computers, battery chargers, electronic ballasts, variable frequency drives, and switch mode power supplies, generate perilous harmonics and cause enormous economic loss every year. Problems caused by power quality have great adverse economic impact on the utilities and customers. Due to that both power suppliers and power consumers are concerned about the power quality problems and compensation techniques. Power quality has become more and more serious with each passing day. As a result active power filter gains much more attention due to excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three-phase without neutral), and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) ac power networks with nonlinear loads. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new control topologies have been reported in the last few years. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of APF technology to the researchers and application engineers dealing with power quality issues.


Author(s):  
Bawoke Simachew

Power loss reduction is an important problem that needs to be addressed with respect to generating electrical power. It is important to reduce power loss using locally generated power sources and/or compensations. This chapter brings a method of presents a method of maximizing energy utilization, feeder loss reduction, and voltage profile improvement for radial distribution network using the active and reactive power sources. Distributed Generation (DG) (wind and solar with backup by biomass generation) and shunt capacitor (QG) for reactive power demand are used. Integrating DG and QG at each bus might reduce the loss but it is economically unaffordable, especially for developing countries. Therefore, the utilization optimization method is required for finding an optimal size and location to feeders for placing QG and DG to minimize feeder loss.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunqi Xiao ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
Yanping Sun

A reactive power/voltage control strategy is proposed that uses wind turbines as distributed reactive power sources to optimize the power flow in large-scale wind farms and reduce the overall losses of the collector system. A mathematical model of loss optimization for the wind farm collector systems is proposed based on a reactive power/voltage sensitivity analysis; a genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm are used to validate the optimization performances. The simulation model is established based on a large-scale wind farm. The results of multiple scenarios show that the proposed strategy is superior to the traditional methods with regard to the reactive power/voltage control of the wind farm and the loss reduction of the collector system. Furthermore, the advantages in terms of annual energy savings and environmental protection are also estimated.


Author(s):  
E. Muljadi ◽  
C. P. Butterfield

Wind power generation has increased very rapidly in the past few years. The total U.S. wind power capacity by the end of 2001 was 4,260 megawatts. As wind power capacity increases, it becomes increasingly important to study the impact of wind farm output on the surrounding power networks. In this paper, we attempt to simulate a wind farm by including the properties of the wind turbine, the wind speed time series, the characteristics of surrounding power network, and reactive power compensation. Mechanical stress and fatigue load of the wind turbine components are beyond the scope this paper. The paper emphasizes the impact of the wind farms on the electrical side of the power network. A typical wind farm with variable speed wind turbines connected to an existing power grid is investigated. Different control strategies for feeding wind energy into the power network are investigated, and the advantages and disadvantages are presented.


2013 ◽  
Vol 391 ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Ning Bo Wang ◽  
De Zhi Chen ◽  
Xiao Rong Zhu ◽  
Yun Ting Song

Increasing penetration level of wind power integration has a significant impact on low-frequency oscillations of power systems. Based on PSD-BPA simulation software, time domain simulation analysis and eigenvalue analysis are employed to investigate its effect on power system low-frequency oscillation characteristic in an outward transmitting thermal generated power bundled with wind power illustrative power system. System damping enhances markedly and the risk of low-frequency oscillation reduce when the generation of wind farm increase. In addition, dynamic reactive power compensations apply to wind farm, and the simulation result indicates that it can improve dynamic stability and enhance the system damping.


2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 846-849
Author(s):  
Jian Yuan Xu ◽  
Wei Fu Qi ◽  
Yun Teng

This paper mainly studies wind power fluctuations how to affect voltage stability after the wind power grid integration, and reactive power compensation equipment on improving effect. In certain parts of the wind farm, for example, firstly, analyzing the wind farm reactive power problems. Then introduce the reactive power compensation equipment that used in the wind farm. Finally, with PSCAD software, making a simulation analysis about the influence on the power grid voltage according to adopting the different reactive power compensation devices or not.


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