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Investigation on Fault-ride through Methods for VSC-HVDC Connected Offshore Wind Farms

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel fault-ride through method for offshore wind farms connected to grid through a voltage source converter (VSC)-based high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission. The proposed method introduces a controlled voltage drop at offshore grid when an onshore fault occurs. The idea behind is to achieve a fast power reduction. Additionally in the proposed idea, every individual wind turbine detects the voltage drop of offshore grid almost simultaneously, then its controller decreases the power set-point to reduce the power output from each wind turbine. The effectiveness of this method is verified by numerical simulations performed in PSCAD.
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Category

Academic article

Language

English

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Delft University of Technology
  • SINTEF Energy Research / Energisystemer

Year

2016

Published in

Energy Procedia

ISSN

1876-6102

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

94

Page(s)

29 - 36

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