Abstract
The size of wind power plants (WPPs) keeps getting bigger and bigger. The number of wind plants in the U.S. has increased very rapidly in the past 10 years. It is projected that in the U.S., the total wind power generation will reach 330 GW by 2030. As the importance of WPPs increases, planning engineers must perform impact studies used to evaluate short-circuit current (SCC) contribution of the plant into the transmission network under different fault conditions. This information is needed to size the circuit breakers, to establish the proper system protection, and to choose the transient suppressor in the circuits within the WPP. This task can be challenging to protection engineers due to the topology differences between different types of wind turbine generators (WTGs) and the conventional generating units. This paper investigates the short-circuit behavior of a WPP for different types of wind turbines. Both symmetrical faults and unsymmetrical faults are investigated. Three different software packages are utilized to develop this paper. Time domain simulations and steady-state calculations are used to perform the analysis.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Event | 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - San Diego, California Duration: 22 Jul 2012 → 26 Jul 2012 |
Conference
Conference | 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting |
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City | San Diego, California |
Period | 22/07/12 → 26/07/12 |
Bibliographical note
See NREL/CP-5500-53463 for preprintNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5500-57684
Keywords
- Fault contribution
- induction generator
- protection
- short circuit
- wind power plant
- wind turbine