Method for controlling a wind park

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10174742-B2
Application number	US-201314416014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2013
Priority date	Jul 20, 2012
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a wind park comprising several wind power installations to feed electrical power into an electrical AC grid at a point of common coupling (PCC). The method comprises feeding a 3-phase current at a point of common coupling, identifying a grid voltage on the point of common coupling, comparing the grid voltage that was identified on point of common coupling with at least one predetermined set point value, determining set point values for wind power installations depending on a comparison conducted to meet a stability criterion on point of common coupling, passing the determined set point values to plant control units of the individual wind power installations, and producing electrical current at each of the wind power installations depending on the predetermined set point values to be jointly fed in on point of common coupling.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a wind park comprising a central control unit and a plurality of wind power installations for feeding electrical power into an electrical AC grid at a point of common coupling, the method comprising:
feeding a 3-phase current to the point of common coupling;
identifying a grid voltage at the point of common coupling;
comparing the grid voltage with at least one predetermined set point value;
determining set point values for the wind power installations depending on the comparison to meet a stability criterion at the point of common coupling, wherein the stability criterion is variable, and the stability criterion depends on at least one of:
a reactive power fed in by the wind park or an active power fed in by the wind park;
calculating a stability boundary;
storing the stability boundary in the central control unit as a characteristic map;
determining set point values for the reactive power and the active power such that an operating point of the wind farm is located on a stable side of the stability boundary, wherein the operating point is defined by the active power fed in by the wind park and the reactive power fed in by the wind park, and the operating point is set or limited such that a safety distance between the operating point and the stability boundary is set and maintained;
sending the determined set point values to plant control units of each of the wind power installations; and
generating electrical current on each of the wind power installations depending on the determined set point values for joint feeding into the point of common coupling.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:
identifying and measuring the current fed into the point of common coupling;
wherein at least one of the following are performed by the central control unit:
identifying the current fed in to the point of common coupling,
identifying the grid voltage at the point of common coupling,
comparing the grid voltage with the at least one predetermined set point value, and
determining the set point value, wherein the stability criterion further depends on a grid condition of the AC grid at the point of common coupling.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein determining the set point values comprises determining the set point values based on a breakdown into a positive sequence component and a negative sequence component according to a method of symmetrical components.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein parameters at the point of common coupling are derived from measurements of at least one of voltage and current at the point of common coupling to assess characteristics of the AC grid.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
recording and storing grid sensitivities during a previously conducted grid analysis;
identifying current grid sensitivities for a current operating point, and at least one set point value; and
updating the at least one set point value depending on a comparison of the current grid sensitivity with the previously recorded grid sensitivities.

6. The method according to claim 2 wherein set point values for at least one of the reactive power and the active power changes, and wherein based on a response of the voltage of the grid at the point of common coupling, a current grid sensitivity is determined based on the change.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein determining set point values comprises using an hysteresis controller to predetermine the set point values, and wherein at least one of the set point values is changed, when at least one electrical parameter in the grid meets a predetermined criterion.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein determining set point values is based on the impedance of a supply line coupling one of the wind power installations of the plurality of wind power installations to the point of common coupling when a voltage drop on the supply line is expected.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the electrical parameter is a voltage at the point of common coupling, wherein the predetermined criterion is at least one of an upper threshold value, a lower threshold values, and outside of a tolerance band.

10. The method according to claim 5 further comprising reducing the set point value for the active power when the comparison of the comparison of the current grid sensitivity with the previously recorded grid sensitivities is above a high threshold value or below a low threshold value.

11. The method according to claim 3 wherein the set point values are values of the positive sequence component including at least one of:
at least one reactive power of the respective wind power installation and related to the positive sequence component,
at least one output or clamp voltage of the respective wind power installation that is related to the positive sequence component, and
at least one active power of the respective wind power installation and related to the positive sequence component.

12. A wind park, comprising:
a plurality of wind power installations for feeding electrical power into an electrical AC grid at a point of common coupling; and
a central control unit configured to control the wind park by:
causing a 3-phase current to be fed at the point of common coupling;
identifying a grid voltage at the point of common coupling;
comparing the grid voltage with at least one predetermined set point value;
determining set point values for the plurality of wind power installations depending on the comparison to meet a stability criterion at the point of common coupling, wherein the stability criterion is variable, and the stability criterion depends on at least one of: a reactive power fed in by the wind park or an active power fed in by the wind park;
calculating a stability boundary;
storing the stability boundary in the central control unit as a characteristic map;
determining set point values for the reactive power and the active power such that an operating point of the wind farm is located on a stable side of the stability boundary, wherein the operating point is defined by the active power fed in by the wind park and the reactive power fed in by the wind park, and the operating point is set or limited such that a safety distance between the operating point and the stability boundary is set and maintained;
sending the determined set point values to plant control units of each of the plurality of wind power installations; and
causing electrical current to be generated on each of the plurality of wind power installations depending on the determined set point values for joint feeding into the point of common coupling.

13. The wind park according to claim 12 , wherein each wind power installation of the wind park comprises a plant control unit, wherein the central control unit is prepared to provide the plant control units with predetermined set point values for at least one of the reactive power and the active power.

14. The wind park according to claim 12 , wherein at the point of common coupling has a short circuit current ratio that is less than 4.

15. The wind park according to claim 12 , wherein a wind power installation of the plurality of wind power installations produces electrical power from wind, wherein the wind power installation is in the wind park, and includes a respective plant control unit to receive set point values from the central control unit of the wind park.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Diedrichs Volker

Classifications

• F03D7/048 Primary

  controlling wind farms · CPC title

• F03D7/0284 Primary

  in relation to the state of the electric grid · CPC title

• H02J3/26 Primary

  Arrangements for eliminating or reducing asymmetry in polyphase networks · CPC title

• Y02E40/50

  Arrangements for eliminating or reducing asymmetry in polyphase networks · CPC title

• H02J3/16 Primary

  by adjustment of reactive power · CPC title