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Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators

Sandro Aquiles-Perez, Siemens Industry Inc. (former Electrocon), Sherman Chan, ASPEN, Ritwik Chowdhury, SEL, Ratan Das, GE, Alla Deronja, ATC, Charles Henville, Henville Consulting, Jim van de Ligt, CANA Energy Ltd, Dean Miller, POI Engineering, Manish Patel, Southern Company, Athula Rajapakse, University of Manitoba, Looja Tuladhar, Commonwealth, Mohammad Zadeh, ETAP Amin Zamani, GE, Nicole Clock, Vestas, Ali Goharrizi, Manitoba Hydro International, Rajat Majumder, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Donald MacGregor, Siemens Industry Inc. (former Electrocon), Robert Nelson, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

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Technical Report 25 Jun 2020

In 2015, Power System Relaying & Control Committee, jointly with Electric Machines and Transmission and Distribution committees, published a report entitled “Fault Contributions from Wind Farms”[1]. This report documented simulated and field data pertaining to different types of wind turbine generators (WTGs) and wind farms. The report showed the complexities of the short-circuit responses, especially from Type-III and Type-IV WTGs, which revealed that the existing phasor domain short-circuit models for WTGs in commercial fault analysis programs do not adequately capture the fault behavior of these WTGs. This led to the formation of this working group C24 - Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators.

The scope of this working group was:
1) To survey WTG manufacturers to determine what parameters they could provide that could be used by steady-state short-circuit program developers to model the response of WTGs in various time frames.
2) To use the results of this survey to prepare a report that can be used by steady-state short-circuit program developers to refine their models.

Chairs:
Sukumar Brahma, Clemson University
Vice-Chair: Evangelos Farantatos, EPRI
Primary Committee:
Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC)
Sponsor Committees:
System Protection Subcommittee, WG C24

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