Open AccessOn wind turbine control for participation in grid frequency regulation
Author(s) -
Iker Elorza,
Carlos Calleja,
Aron Pujana-Arrese
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1222/1/012024
Subject(s) - wind power , turbine , control (management) , automatic frequency control , grid , power (physics) , production (economics) , control theory (sociology) , frequency regulation , torque , computer science , environmental science , engineering , electric power system , electrical engineering , telecommunications , economics , mathematics , microeconomics , mechanical engineering , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , thermodynamics
An energy mix with a large contribution from wind power requires wind farm participation in frequency regulation. To do this effectively, it is necessary for wind turbines to curtail their power production by a certain amount, or ‘delta’, which serves as a reserve. Although it is relatively straightforward to achieve this in certain conditions, doing so consistently normally requires wind speed observers to estimate available power. A delta control method is proposed here, which does not rely on said observers and naturally extends popular torque and pitch control algorithms.