Wind Power Systems, 5 cr

Core content

• An overview of the wind energy industry and technology
  
• • Energy extracted from the wind
    
  • Wind turbines and their operation
• Generators
  
• • Induction and synchronous machines
    
  • Wind energy conversion: Fixed- and variable-speed systems
    
  • Introduction to "standard" electrical models of wind turbines
• Principles of wind farm design
• • Wind measurements and forecastings
  • Layouts and array losses
  • Electrical connections, connection requirements, connection costs, internal control of a farm
• Impact of large-scale wind power on the power system: steady-state performance
  
• • Congestion management
    
  • Transmission efficiency
    
  • Adequacy of grid
  • Adequacy of power
    
• Impact of large-scale wind power on the power system: Dynamic performance
  
• • Smoothing phenomena
  • Impacts on power system frequency control and reserves 
  • Wind turbine's capability to provide 
  • • Grid code requirements (Fault ride through, ramp rates)
    • Frequency and non-frequency ancillary services (FFR, FCR-N, voltage control)
  • Stability impacts
    
• Impact of large-scale wind power on electricity market
• • Price impacts on wholesale, balancing and reserve markets
    
  • Capacity value of wind power
  • Operation of wind farms on electricity markets: economic dispatch, forecasting, co-optimization with hydro power, trading, balance management
    

Complementary knowledge

• The wind resource
• Reduced-order and aggregated models
• Connection contracts
  
• Offshore farms
  
• Experiences from Europe and Finland
  
• Smoothing controls
  
• Wind energy curtailment and storage
  
• Integration with other energy sectors: heat, transportation and gas
• Power system oscillations and damping control of wind turbines

Specialist knowledge

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