Large Scale Renewable Power Generation

This book focuses on the issues of integrating large-scale renewable power generation into existing grids. It includes a new protection technique for renewable generators along with the inclusion of current status of smart grid.

Provides background material necessary for transient studies, controller and protection design algorithms Also provides extensive, innovative and unique studies regarding the impact of different types of energy storage devices on the performance of distribution systems Outlines various methods to mitigate the problem of renewable energy integration and brings about the merits clearly Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Jahangir Hossain received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is currently a lecturer in the Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Before joining Griffith University, he served as a research fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests are power systems, renewable energy integration and stabilization, voltage stability, micro grids, robust control, electrical machine, FACTS devices and energy storage systems.

Dr. Apel Mahmud received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is currently a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests are dynamic stability of power systems, renewable energy integration, smart grids, nonlinear control theory and electrical machine.

Inhalt
Taxonomy of Uncertainty Modeling techniques in Renewable Energy System Studies.- Probabilistic Modeling and Statistical Characteristics of Aggregate Wind Power.- Conversion Efficiency Improvement in GaAs Solar Cells.- Emerging SMES Technology into Energy Storage Systems and Smart Grid Applications.- Multilevel Converters for Step-up-Transformer-less Direct Integration of Renewable Generation Units with Medium Voltage Smart Microgrids.- A Review of Interconnection Rules for Large Scale Renewable Power Generation.- Resiliency Analysis of Large-Scale Renewable Enriched Power Grid A Network Percolation Based Approach.- Frequency Control and Inertial Response Schemes for the Future Power Networks.- Active Power and Frequency Control Considering Large Scale RES.- Impact of Large Penetration of Correlated Wind Generation on Power System Reliability.- HVDC Transmission for Offshore Wind Farm.- Wind Farm Protection.- Wind Power Plants and FACTS devices influence in the performance of distancerelays.- Protection Schemes for Meshed VSC-HVDC Transmission Systems for Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farms.- Control of Emerging Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Wind Turbine Generators.- Energy Hub Management with Intermittent Wind Power.- Adopting the IEC Common Information Model to Enable Smart Grid Interoperability and Knowledge Representation Processes.