Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access

The role of STATCOM to power quality improvement in wind energy system integration

World Congress and Exhibition on Wind & Renewable Energy

July 28-30, 2016 Berlin, Germany

Nasser M Tandjaoui, Ali Haddi, Chellali Benachaiba and Othmane Abdelkhalek

University of Bechar, Algeria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

Abstract :

The renewable energy plays an important role to provide electrical energy other than conventional sources. Wind power is one of the renewable energy sources used to minimize the environmental impact on conventional plant; it is one of the fastest growing sources of energy in the world. However, when the wind power is connected to an electric grid may cause problems important in terms of power quality. The effects of the power quality measurements are the active power, reactive power, variation of voltage, flicker, harmonics, and electrical behaviour of switching operations. This paper demonstrates the power quality problems due to installation of wind turbine with the grid. In this paper, we propose the importance of using STATCOM when it installed in a wind farm. Here, the STATCOM is connected at a point of common coupling to mitigate the power quality issues. Simulation studies were carried out in the MATLAB/Simulink environment to examine the performance of wind farm with and without STATCOM for improving power quality of wind farms connected to electrical network.

Biography :

Email: tanjaoui_08@yahoo.fr