Impact of Increasing Distributed Wind Power and Wind Turbine Siting on Rural Distribution Feeder Voltage Profiles: Preprint

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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 languageAmerican English
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2013
EventInternational 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 201324 Oct 2013

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as Well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Power Plants
CityLondon, England
Period22/10/1324/10/13

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5D00-60310

Keywords

  • distributed generation
  • distributed wind
  • impact studies
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • NREL

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