Analysis of the Implication of Current Limits in Grid Forming Wind Farm

There is an ongoing trend of reduction in short circuit power at the grid connection point due to decommissioning of synchronous generation plants causing system strength issues in wind power plants. Whereas wind power plant rating and export cable length are increasing, further weakening the system...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-10
Main Authors: Kanakesh Vatta Kkuni, Yang, Guangya, Knueppel, Thyge
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active control
Adequacy
Control stability
Dynamic stability
Electric potential
Generators
Modelling
Power converters
Power plants
Short circuits
Synchronism
Turbogenerators
Voltage
Wind farms
Wind power
Wind turbines
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Summary:There is an ongoing trend of reduction in short circuit power at the grid connection point due to decommissioning of synchronous generation plants causing system strength issues in wind power plants. Whereas wind power plant rating and export cable length are increasing, further weakening the system strength and accompanied by stability challenges. Under such a scenario, a grid forming control demonstrated to operate in a weaker system has value creation potential for application in wind turbine generators. In addition, the grid forming control can also enable a wind power plant to operate in islanded mode, provide inertially and phase jump active power support. However, the application of grid forming control has challenges because grid forming control applied to a power converter (GFC) has a voltage source behavior and does not stiffly control the grid side active power and thus requires a separate current limiting mechanism. However, there could be potential challenges in maintaining the synchronism of GFC when the current limit is triggered, particularly during the grid voltage phase jump event. Modeling and capturing such a phenomenon is a challenge in a wind farm with many wind turbines. To that end, this paper investigates the modeling adequacy of the aggregated GFC-WF to a single GF-WTG of total WF rating in capturing GFC-WF dynamics. The challenges related to loss of synchronization stability when one or more wind turbine generators enter current limited operation during a grid phase jump events are also evaluated in this paper.
ISSN:2331-8422