Intelligent control on wind farm

Abstract

Since the renewable energy is popularly applied in power industry, especially the smart grid is fast developing all over the world during these years, the reliable connection between a wind farm and the main grid has been focused on. Due to the difficult control on the wind energy, the connection with the wind farm makes the grid more vulnerable. The communication technologies have been considered as a solution to solve the problems according to the IEC 61400–25 series protocols. This paper presents the significance of communication technologies in wind farm system by the simulations on some practical scenarios. By delivering the signals among WTs (wind turbines) and control centers, they both are able to recognize another side's operation situation and to adjust its own state to realize the optimization. A scenario is designed in this paper, in which a fault occurs in wind farm; then the protection performance are compared between with communication techniques and without communication technology. The characteristics of the communication network corresponding with the wind farm are previously illustrated by OPNET, and then the power system with wind farm is studied by EMTDC /PSCAD. The simulation results are analyzed to draw a conclusion.