Wind Power in Power Systems

Contributors xxxi Abbreviations xlvii Notation lvii 1 Introduction 1 Thomas Ackermann 2 Preface: Wind Power Myths Debunked 7 Michael Milligan, Kevin Porter, Edgar DeMeo, Paul Denholm, Hannele Holttinen, Brendan Kirby, Nicholas Miller, Andrew Mills, Mark O'Malley, Matthew Schuerger and Lennart Soder Part A THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 3 Historical Development and Current Status of Wind Power 23 Thomas Ackermann 4 Wind Power in Power Systems: An Introduction 47 Lennart Söder and Thomas Ackermann 5 Generators and Power Electronics for Wind Turbines 73 Anca D. Hansen 6 Power System Impacts of Wind Power 105 Hannele Holttinen and Ritva Hirvonen 7 The Value of Wind Power 131 Lennart Söder Part B TECHNICAL REGULATIONS AND GRID CODE VALIDATION 8 Power Quality Standards for Wind Turbines 159 John Olav Tande 9 Measurement of Electrical Characteristics 175 Fritz Santjer 10 Practical Experience with Power Quality and Wind Power 195 Ake Larsson 11 Technical Regulations for the Interconnection of Wind Power Plants to the Power System 209 Julija Matevosyan, Sigrid M. Bolik and Thomas Ackermann 12 Performance Validation and Certification for Grid Codes 241 Martin Schellschmidt, Stephan Adloff and Markus Fischer Part C WIND POWER PLANT AND TRANSMISSION ISSUES 13 Electrical Design of a Wind Power Plant 259 Nicholas Miller, Reigh Walling and Richard Piwko 14 Transmission Systems for Offshore Wind Power Plants and Operation Planning Strategies for Offshore Power Systems 293 Thomas Ackermann, Antje Orths and Krzysztof Rudion 15 New Cable Systems for Offshore Wind Power Plants 329 Heinrich Brakelmann and Jan Bruügmann 16 New Control Concept for Offshore Wind Power Plants: Constant-Speed Turbines on a Grid with Variable Frequency 345 Eckehard Tröster Part D INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 17 Overview of Integration Studies - Methodologies and Results 363 Hannele Holttinen 18 Two Reference Studies on European Transmission for Wind Integration: TradeWind and EWIS 387 Frans Van Hulle 19 Transmission Planning for Wind Energy in the USA: Status and Prospects 413 J. Charles Smith, Dale Osborn, Richard Piwko, Robert Zavadil, Brian Parsons, Lynn Coles, David Hawkins, Warren Lasher and Bradley Nickell 20 Wind Power in Areas with Limited Transmission Capacity 439 Julija Matevosyan 21 Wind Power and Storage 465 Aidan Tuohy and Mark O'Malley 22 Economic Aspects of Wind Power in Power Systems 489 Poul Erik Morthorst and Thomas Ackermann Part E POWER SYSTEM INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE 23 Wind Power in the Danish Power System 519 Antje G. Orths and Peter Børre Eriksen 24 Wind Power in the German Network: Present Status and Future Challenges of Maintaining Quality of Supply 549 Matthias Luther and Wilhelm Winter 25 Wind Integration in Portugal Ana Estanqueiro 26 Wind Power Integration Experience in Spain 595 Juan Ma. Rodríguez García, Olivia Alonso García and Miguel de la Torre Rodríguez 27 Maximizing Renewable Generation on the Power System of Ireland and Northern Ireland 623 Jonathan O'Sullivan 28 Wind Power in the Power System in Texas 649 Henry Durrwachter and Warren Lasher 29 Wind Power in the New Zealand Power System 667 Ray Brown 30 Large-Scale Wind Power Integration into the Chinese Power System 689 Yongning Chi, Zhen Wang, Yan Li and Weisheng Wang 31 Isolated Systems with Wind Power 707 E. Ian Baring-Gould and Per Lundsager 32 Wind Farms in Weak Power Networks in India 739 Poul Sørensen 33 Wind Power Prediction 753 Bernhard Ernst Part F DYNAMIC MODELLING OF WIND TURBINES FOR POWER SYSTEM STUDIES 34 Introduction to the Modelling of Wind Turbines 769 Hans Knudsen and Jørgen Nygard Nielsen 35 A Generic Wind Power Plant Model 799 Abraham Ellis, Yuriy Kazachkov, Juan Sanchez-Gasca, Pouyan Pourbeik, Eduard Muljadi, Michael Behnke, Jens Fortmann and Slavomir Seman 36 Reduced-Order Modelling of Wind Turbines 821 Katherine Elkington, J.G. (Han) Slootweg, Mehrdad Ghandhari and Wil L. Kling 37 High-Order Models of Doubly Fed Induction Generators 849 Eva Centeno López and Jonas Persson 38 Full-Scale Verification of Dynamic Wind Turbine Models 865 Vladislav Akhmatov 39 Impacts of Wind Power on Power System Stability 891 Eknath Vittal, Andrew Keane, J.G. Slootweg and Wil Kling 40 Modelling of Large Wind Power Plants Vladislav Akhmatov and Björn Andressen Part G Future Issues 41 Benefits of Active Management of Distribution Systems 42 Wind Power and the Smart Grid 43 Reactive Power Capability and Voltage Control with Wind Turbines 44 Hydrogen as a Means of Transporting and Balancing Wind Power Production 999 Robert Steinberger-Wilckens Index 1019