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Wind energy powers-that-be successor generation in globalization

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Summary, in English

After a historic introduction, today's wind power technology is reviewed on a systems level, with some details, and with some brave suggestions for wind technology 2030 when power electronics (PE) will be some 2000 GW. Eternal themes like "electricity storage" are avoided. Aspects of drive-trains in towers and collection grids in parks are concisely described in the paper's core, including: 1) a power circuit scheme eliminating mechanical stress in geared drive-trains at grid faults and low-voltage ride-through (LVRT); 2) a brushless drive-train with partly rated PE; 3) a clarification of transients in cable collection grids including causes, prevention, and mitigation; and 4) details of interactions between PE and cables at faults. IEEE members are challenged to meet emerging demands, and to host future renewable energy (RE) conversion with education, standards, R&D, and wind system coordination, defined well above automation.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

13-28

Publication/Series

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volume

22

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • wind parks
  • collection grids
  • wind
  • slip-rings
  • review
  • brushes
  • drive-trains
  • cable transients
  • wind power

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0885-8969