An Integrated Power Smoothing Control for a Grid-Interactive Wind Farm Considering Wake Effects

This paper presents a power smoothing control scheme for a permanent-magnet-synchronous-generator-based wind farm considering wake effects. The integrated power smoothing method consists of a pitch angle control system, a kinetic wind-energy turbine inertia control system, and a dc-link voltage control system. Low frequency range power fluctuations caused by wind speed variations are smoothed by the pitch angle control system and the kinetic wind-energy turbine inertia control system. Power fluctuations in the high frequency range are smoothed by the dc-link voltage control system. This power smoothing approach is cost-effective because the power smoothing is made possible without additional energy storage devices. In addition, the wake effects of the wind farm are considered for power smoothing with different tower spaces. The proposed method is compared with the conventional maximum-power-point-tracking method. Simulation results confirm the proposed method efficacy in smoothing the power injected by a wind farm.

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