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Research project
Model Development for Power System Analysis with a substantial wind energy capacity installed in the Nordic grid
Short description
The power production from wind energy in the world is growing very fast and the Nordic countries are performing an important role in it, not only taking advantage of theirs renewable resources but also developing the suitable technology for that. During the last 20 years the wind energy technology has been strongly developed, increasing from single 55kW wind turbines to single 2MW and 3MW wind turbines installed in large wind farms. Within a few years several wind farms of hundreds of MW and high number of wind turbines will be under construction on the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and on shore in the Nordic countries. Consequently, large amounts of energy and power coming from wind will be injected into the Nordic grid.
Nevertheless, increasing the penetration level of wind power generation into the power system produces impacts on the power system performance, operation and control. Hence, more careful studies on wind power generation and its interaction with the power system stability need to be done for finding suitable solutions and making the power system reliable.
This project is aimed at performing these studies. The main objective into the project is to develop reliable models suitable for studying the implications of operating the Nordic grid with a large amount of energy and power coming from wind farms.
Project goal
The project seeks answers to:
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How will the wind turbine and wind farm be electrically modeled and designed to fulfill the demands from the grid operators. |
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How can wind turbines/wind farms participate in balancing control and provide other system control services. |
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How to develop good models for adaptations and integration of large amount of wind energy into the electricity markets. |
Expected outcomes:
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Validated generic wind turbine and wind farm models available for power system stability studies and used by the TSO and wind farm developers in the every day work. |
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New models and improvements of existing models for wind farms control, power market analysis, transmission planning and system control assessments. |
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Description and validation of models developed and used by the project partners. |
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Guidelines and routines for system control studies with large amount of wind power in the grid. |
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Highlight important design issues though case studies. |
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The above direct results will be set in a wider perspective, explained and analysed in publications listed below:
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6-7 Ph.D.-thesis |
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20-25 publications in international peer-reviewed journals |
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20-25 publications on international conferences | |
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The project will also organize two Nordic Wind Power Conferences and if possible make measurements from wind farms available to the project members. |
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The project results will also be presented on a project web page. |
Organizations taking participation
- Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
- Risø, Denmark.
- Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
- VTT, Finland.
- SINTEF Energy Research, Norway
- Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
More information
Contact:
Jacob Østergaard, CET, DTU Elektro
Project Manager
, Associate Professor, Energy and Environment,
Chalmers University of Technology
February 2008
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