Coordinated Reactive Power Control with a Variable Shunt Reactor and an Inverter-Based Wind Power Plant

Underground or submarine cables have a higher capacitance component than overhead lines, and they inject a large amount of capacitive reactive power into the system. A separate reactive power compensation device is required in order for a wind power plant (WPP) connected to the public network with a...

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Main Authors: Kim, S.-B (Author), Song, S.-H (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2022
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Summary:Underground or submarine cables have a higher capacitance component than overhead lines, and they inject a large amount of capacitive reactive power into the system. A separate reactive power compensation device is required in order for a wind power plant (WPP) connected to the public network with a cable to meet the reactive power requirements required by the grid code. In this paper, a reactive power control using a variable shunt reactor (VSR) was proposed to satisfy the reactive power requirement required by the grid code for a WPP connected to the grid through a cable. The proposed reactive power control method compensates for the capacitive reactive power of the cable by using a VSR, and it follows the reactive power command through the reactive power control of a WPP. In the section where it is difficult to follow the WPP reactive power command only with the reactive power capacity of a WPP due to cable losses or a cable reactive power compensation error of the VSR, the reactive power control is additionally supported through the hyste-resis control of the VSR. The proposed method satisfies the grid codes, and it enables fast and accu-rate reactive power control. The performance of the proposed method was verified through simulation using MATLAB/Simulink. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
ISBN:19961073 (ISSN)
DOI:10.3390/en15134739