Wind Power Plant Voltage Stability Evaluation: Preprint

Eduard Muljadi, Yingchen Zhang

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Abstract

Voltage stability refers to the ability of a power system to maintain steady voltages at all buses in the system after being subjected to a disturbance from a given initial operating condition. Voltage stability depends on a power system's ability to maintain and/or restore equilibrium between load demand and supply. Instability that may result occurs in the form of a progressive fall or rise of voltages of some buses. Possible outcomes of voltage instability are the loss of load in an area or tripped transmission lines and other elements by their protective systems, which may lead to cascading outages. The loss of synchronism of some generators may result from these outages or from operating conditions that violate a synchronous generator's field current limit, or in the case of variable speed wind turbine generator, the current limits of power switches. This paper investigates the impact of wind power plants on power system voltage stability by using synchrophasor measurements.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 2014
EventInternational Conference on Wind Energy Grid-Adaptive Technologies - Jeju, Korea
Duration: 20 Oct 201422 Oct 2014

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Wind Energy Grid-Adaptive Technologies
CityJeju, Korea
Period20/10/1422/10/14

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5D00-62568

Keywords

  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • NREL
  • phasor measurement unit
  • voltage stability
  • wind power plants

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