Abstract
Many favorable wind energy resources in North America are located in remote locations without direct access to the transmission grid. Building transmission lines to connect remotely-located wind power plants to large load centers has become a barrier to increasing wind power penetration in North America. By connecting utility-sized megawatt-scale wind turbines to the distribution system, windpower supplied to consumers could be increased greatly. However, the impact of including megawatt-scale wind turbines on distribution feeders needs to be studied. The work presented here examined the impact that siting and power output of megawatt-scale wind turbines have on distribution feeder voltage. This is the start of work to present a general guide to megawatt-scale wind turbine impact onthe distribution feeder and finding the amount of wind power that can be added without adversely impacting the distribution feeder operation, reliability, and power quality.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 8 |
State | Published - 2013 |
Event | International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as Well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Power Plants - London, England Duration: 22 Oct 2013 → 24 Oct 2013 |
Conference
Conference | International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as Well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Power Plants |
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City | London, England |
Period | 22/10/13 → 24/10/13 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5D00-60310
Keywords
- distributed generation
- distributed wind
- impact studies
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- NREL