POWER QUALITY CONTROL OF WIND POWER PLANTS BY USING FACTS DEVICE

Author Name: 1. Abdul Hakeem Shaikh 2. Jawaria Ishfaq

Volume/Issue: 04/02

Country: Pakistan

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2023-51795645/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Pakistan
2.  Nuclear Institute of Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Collage, PIEAS, Faisalabad, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

As the energy cost from conventional power plants increases due to the increase in Fossil Fuels, Renewable energy has become an essential alternative energy source to reduce the overall cost of electrical energy and meet the current demand. With the transformation of power grids due to the significant penetration of RES based on power electronics energy converters such as wind energy and solar power (PV), the control and operation of linked networks have become demanding to preserve their sustainability and efficiency. The power system faces various new stability difficulties due to the dynamic behavior of renewable energy in the converter interface sources being different from that of traditional power generation. Wind energy is one of the most developing Renewable energies, which is now a day's utilized in most countries around the globe to satisfy the present demand. As the wind velocity never remains constant, the wind turbine's output constantly changes, resulting in Flickers, voltage sags, and harmonics, which impact the power quality on a vast scale. The poor power quality of the wind power plant is the fundamental limitation in the growth of wind energy. In this view, a synchronous static compensator (STATCOM), a flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) shunt coupled, is considered an essential solution for preserving the stability of the power grid. This work proposes the (STATCOM) influence of static and transient circumstances on wind turbines. It examines several STATCOM control models based on adaptive, conventional, predictive, robust, and coordinated control and soft computing methodologies. MATLAB/SIMULINK is used in the power system block to simulate the power grid coupled with a wind power generation scheme to improve the power quality. Based on the data collected

Key words: STATCOM, Power quality, dynamic behavior, Renewable Energy, Wind energy, FACTS Devices.