Modelling wind farms for grid disturbance studies

This paper analyses the simplest representation of generators on wind turbine modelling, giving the accuracy required in power system disturbance studies. The order of the generator model and the numerical integration methods employed are compared. To avoid the use of a detailed model of a wind farm, several aggregated models can be found in the literature. This paper analyses the influence of the wind farm internal network in the accuracy of the results and proposes a new equivalent model to represent the dynamic response of wind farms. The proposed aggregated model considers a weighted average where the transported power is used as weighting factor in order to ameliorate the accuracy on grid disturbance simulations. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.