Method for feeding electric power into a supply grid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016201651-A1
Application number	US-201414911700-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 1, 2014
Priority date	Aug 15, 2013
Publication date	Jul 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Method for feeding electric power into an electric supply grid by means of a wind farm, wherein the wind farm feeds into the supply grid from an interconnecting network and via a transformer, with the first interconnecting network having a interconnecting network voltage and the supply grid having a grid voltage, wherein feeding takes place based on a virtual measured voltage and a voltage of a virtual measurement point is calculated as the virtual measured voltage.

First claim

1 . A method for feeding electric power into an electric supply grid by a wind farm, the method comprising:
from an interconnecting network and via a transformer, feeding the electric power from the wind farm into the supply grid, the interconnecting network having an interconnecting network voltage and the supply grid having a grid voltage, wherein: feeding is based on a virtual measured voltage, and a voltage of a virtual measurement point is calculated as the virtual measured voltage.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual measurement point;
lies in a line of the supply grid, lies in a line of the interconnecting network, or lies in a conductor between the transformer and the supply grid.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual measurement point lies in the transformer.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following:
the grid voltage is approximately 110 kV; and the interconnecting network voltage is between 1 kV and 50 kV.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the virtual measured voltage at the virtual measurement point is calculated from at least one or more of the following:
the interconnecting network voltage,
a current of the transformer,
the currently fed-in power, and
a currently fed-in reactive power, and
the calculation of the voltage of the virtual measurement point is based on at least one of the following:
a resistance of at least a portion of the transformer or a line between an actual measurement point and the virtual measurement point, and
a reactance of at least a portion of the transformer or a line between an actual measurement point and the virtual measurement point.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual measurement point is arranged in the transformer, the transformer including coils, wherein:
one part of the coils of the transformer is active at the virtual measurement point and that the electric position of the measurement point is defined by a ratio of a number of active coils to a total number of the coils of the transformer, a resistance and a reactance of the active coils are taken as parameters to calculate the virtual voltage at the virtual measurement point, and values for the resistance and the reactance of the active coils are calculated from a resistance and a reactance of the overall transformer and from a ratio of the number of active coils to the total number of the coils of the transformer.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the fed-in power is increased or reduced, and a fed-in reactive power is increased or reduced based on the virtual measured voltage.

8 . A wind farm for feeding electric power into a supply grid, wherein the wind farm is prepared for using a method according to claim 1 for feeding the electric power into the supply grid.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual measurement point is set to a predetermined rated value.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein the predetermined rated value is 20 kV.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Beekman Alfred
• Busker Kai

Classifications

• H02J2101/28

  Wind energy · CPC title

• H02J3/18

  Arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks · CPC title

• Y02E40/30

  Reactive power compensation · CPC title

• F03D9/257

  the wind motor being part of a wind farm · CPC title

• Y02E10/76

  Power conversion electric or electronic aspects · CPC title