Reliable and cost-effective wind farm control strategy for offshore wind turbines

Sung-ho Hur

Renewable Energy, 2021, vol. 163, issue C, 1265-1276

Abstract: The power converter is among the most vulnerable wind turbine components. It is thus important to improve its reliability, especially when wind turbines are offshore because they are often exposed to severe weather conditions. A wind turbine is normally regulated using a dedicated controller, coupled with a power converter, but the control strategy proposed here requires a group (or cluster) of turbines to share a controller/converter between several turbines. The shared controller/converter would be placed somewhere more accessible, such as a substation. The potential benefits include improved reliability of each turbine due to the simplification (having removed its vulnerable power converter) and greater energy yield as a result of improved accessibility (which would lead to reduced downtime).

Keywords: Wind turbine control; Wind farm control; Offshore wind energy; Wind farm modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148120314695
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:163:y:2021:i:c:p:1265-1276

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.09.049

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().