Output power leveling of wind generation system using inertia of wind turbine

Wind energy is a significant and powerful natural resource that is safe, clean, and abundant. However, wind energy has a drawback of having only 1/800 density as compared to that of water energy, and it is not constant and wind turbine output is proportional to the cube of wind speed, which causes the generated power of wind turbine generator (WTG) to fluctuate. In this paper, a technique is proposed for output power leveling of a wind generation system. Wind turbine blades have a large inertia compared to the inertia of generator. The inertia of the rotor behaves like an inductor in an electrical circuit. It helps smooth the wind turbine output power, stores energy during acceleration, and restores energy during deceleration. The effectiveness of output power leveling control is verified by simulations for the wind power generation system.

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