Wind Power Plant Voltage Stability Evaluation: Preprint
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.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Power Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1158426
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5D00-62568
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: To be presented at the International Conference on Wind Energy Grid-Adaptive Technologies, 20-22 October 2014, Jeju, Korea
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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