Improving the electrical value of Wind Power Plants

The integration of wind power in the power system is important in order to optimise the utilization of the resource and in order to continue the high rate of installation of generating capacity, which is necessary to achieve the goals of sustainability and security of supply through diversification of the power production, helping to reduce the dependency on imported fuels. Several phenomena can restrict the maximum capacity of wind farms that the grid can tolerate under a technical point of view; the thermal capacity of the feeder, the voltage level, the reactive power consumption and the power quality mainly in terms of flicker, harmonics and interharmonics.