Modeling and Simulation of a Large-Scale Wind Power Plant Considering Grid Code Requirements

Sinawo Nomandela (), Mkhululi E. S. Mnguni and Atanda K. Raji
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Sinawo Nomandela: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 1906 Bellville, Cape Town 7353, South Africa
Mkhululi E. S. Mnguni: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 1906 Bellville, Cape Town 7353, South Africa
Atanda K. Raji: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 1906 Bellville, Cape Town 7353, South Africa

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-24

Abstract: The load demand to a power grid, as well as the interest in clean and low-cost energy resources, has led to the high integration of wind power plants into power system grids. There are grid code standards that are set for the design and integration of these wind power plants. These codes often look at the design operation of the wind power plant in islanded mode, where possible analysis of the most sensitive power system quantities such as voltage, frequency, reactive power, etc. is carried out. Therefore, in this study, attention was paid to the application of these codes to keep the design and integration of wind power plants well standardized as much as possible. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss the literature and theory about the design of wind turbine generators and model and simulate a large-scale wind power plant. The modeling was successfully carried out on RSCAD, and the results obtained show that the wind power plant can be further used for other studies such as voltage stability improvement in power grids.

Keywords: modeling; wind turbine (WT); wind turbine generator unit (WTGU); wind power plant (WPP); wind turbine power coefficient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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