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Tag Archives: wind farm
Transient, Temporary and Ground Fault Overvoltages at Wind Farm Installations
Wind farms by the nature of their design and operating characteristics are susceptible to a variety of overvoltages. Hence it is always important to conduct studies and tests of the various levels of overvoltages and how the equipment at the … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Blogs, Wind Power Integration
Tagged arrester, Basic impulse level, BIL, BSL, capacitor bank, ground fault over voltage, grounding bank, lightning arrester, linkedin, over voltage, overvoltage, PSCAD, surge arrester, system impact, temporary over voltage, transient over voltage, wind farm, wind generator, wind turbine
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Banking on grounding of solar and wind farms
One more item to add to the list of technical items to consider when interconnecting solar and wind farms is grounding. The grounding issue often appears when (a) integrating solar power inverters or wind turbines to existing distribution circuits, or … Continue reading
Posted in Photovoltaic Systems and Distributed Generation, Tech Blogs, Wind Power Integration
Tagged DG, distributed generation, distribution, fault, ground, ground fault, grounding bank, grounding transformer, interconnection, linkedin, LVRT, overvoltage, solar, transfer trip, voltage, wind, wind farm, wind power, wind turbine, windpower, zig-zag transformer
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Transient Overvoltages in Wind Farms, and a Case Study
In various Blogs on this site, we have talked about unique technical issues associated with integrating wind farms into existing grids. This Blog now addresses the matter of transient overvoltages, or TOV, specifically with respect to potential risks to customers … Continue reading
Posted in Photovoltaic Systems and Distributed Generation, Tech Blogs, Wind Power Integration
Tagged analysis, DG, distributed generation, distribution, EMTP, induction, interconnection, linkedin, Photovoltaic, PSCAD, short circuit, solar, solar farm, TOV, transient overvoltage, wind farm, wind power, windpower
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Transmission bases for sizing wind and solar projects
Unlike base load power plants such as nuclear and some coal plants which operate near full capacity for days at a time, solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind farms are variable resources whose output is dependent on the minute-by-minute change in … Continue reading
November 2010 Trainings
Rusty and the UG cablers Closing out the year with a bunch of trainings at the Pterra facility. Early in November, Rusty Bascom conducted the first Underground Cable course. The following week, Boris Gisin and Manos Obessis did TARA training. This … Continue reading
Posted in Training Courses
Tagged 2011, courses, dynamics, interconnection, LVRT, New York, power flow, training, transmission, underground cables, voltage, wind farm
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A Closer Look at Wind Curtailment
by Pterra Consulting Wind farms are unique to power systems in that the construction and development time is much shorter than that of transmission lines and other bulk system facilities. Wind farms can be placed into service well ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in Wind Power Integration
Tagged congestion, constraints, curtailment, flowgates, interconnection, linkedin, pslf, psse, pterra, transmission, wind, wind farm, wind power
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2011 Course Schedule
Getting a head start on the coming year, the 2011 course lineup is as follows: March 29-31, 2011 – Distributed Generation Analysis and Applications Course (New) April 12-14, 2011 – Understanding Location-Based Energy Pricing (New) April 25-29, 2011 – Power … Continue reading
Posted in Training Courses
Tagged courses, DG, dynamics, interconnection, LBMP, locational-pricing, nodal pricing, power flow, pslf, psse, pterra, seminar, stability, system impact, training, transmission, underground cables, voltage, wind, wind farm, wind power
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A Methodology for Estimating Potential Curtailment of Wind Farms
by Pterra Consulting Figure 1 A wind farm integrated into a transmission grid is subject to curtailment due to temporary or long-term insufficient capacity on the transmission lines. Maintenance outage of a nearby line, dispatch of competing wind farms and availability of other generators are examples … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Blogs, Wind Power Integration
Tagged curtailment, power flow, pslf, psse, pterra, transmission, wind farm, wind power
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Fall 2010 Course Schedule
The upcoming schedule of courses for Fall of 2010 includes a number of mainstay application courses, and a new course on underground cables, offered by Pterra jointly with Electrical Consulting Engineers, Inc. The lineup: Aug 10-12, 2010 – Dynamic Simulations … Continue reading
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Tagged courses, dynamics, HVDC, LVRT, power flow, pslf, psse, pterra, seminar, stability, system impact, training, transmission, voltage, wind, wind farm, wind power
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Wind Integration Course – June 2010
Held in Albany, NY, June 15-17, 2010 What can we say? We had all the windy people together and spent the next 3 days blowing air. Seriously, we did get into some serious technical discussions about wind modeling specifics and the … Continue reading
Posted in Training Courses
Tagged courses, interconnection, LVRT, seminar, transmission, wind, wind farm, wind power
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