Increase in fault ride through capability of direct drive permanent magnet based wind farm using VSC-HVDC

• Main Authors: Maleki H., Ramachandaramurthy V.K., Lak M.
• Other Authors: 56747561600
• Format: Conference paper
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Europe; Electric utilities; Fossil fuels; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; HVDC power transmission; Power converters; Wind power; Control strategies; Direct drive; Electrical power; Fault ride through capability; Green energy; Grid code requirements; Output voltages; Wind technology; conference proceeding; electrical power; global warming; greenhouse gas; magnetic field; renewable resource; sustainable development; wind farm; wind power; Electric power transmission networks

Burning of fossil fuels and green house gasses causes global warming. This has led to governments to explore the use of green energies instead of fossil fuels. The availability of wind has made wind technology a viable alternative for generating electrical power. Hence, many parts of the world, especially Europe are experiencing a growth in wind farms. However, by increasing the number of wind farms connected to the grid, power quality and voltage stability of grid becomes a matter of concern. In this paper, VSC-HVDC control strategy which enables the wind farm to ride-through faults and regulate voltage for fault types is proposed. The results show that the wind turbine output voltage fulfills the E.ON grid code requirements, when subjected to three phase to ground fault. Hence, continues operation of the wind farm is achieved. � Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.