IP Library Granted Patent US 7,606,638
Granted Patent B2
US 7,606,638 · App. 11/664,460 · Granted Oct 20, 2009

Wind park with robust reactive power adjustment system and method for the operation thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,606,638
App. No.
11/664,460
Granted
Oct 20, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A windpark includes at least two wind energy installations, each of which installations comprises a rotor, a generator driven by the rotor and a control device, and which are connected via connecting lines to a main line. The windpark also includes a linking point which connects the main line to a power transmission network, a parkmaster which is configured for power factor control and has communication lines for transmission of control signals to the wind energy installations, and a power-factor control section including a distributed regulator having a higher-level regulator located at the parkmaster which is configured to determine a nominal voltage in order to set a global power coefficient for the power which is emitted to the power transmission network and to emit the nominal voltage as a signal via the communication lines and lower-level regulators at the wind energy installations.

Claims (16)

1. A windpark, comprising:

at least two wind energy installations, each of which installations comprises a rotor, a generator driven by the rotor and a control device, and which are connected via connecting lines to a main line,

the windpark further comprising a linking point which connects the main line to a power transmission network, a parkmaster which is configured for power factor control and has communication lines for transmission of control signals to the wind energy installations, and a distributed regulator comprising

a higher-level regulator located at the parkmaster which is configured to determine a nominal voltage in order to set a global power coefficient for the power which is emitted to the power transmission network and to emit the nominal voltage as a signal via the communication lines and

a lower-level regulator at each of the wind energy installations which is configured to calculate a local wattless-component nominal value from the signal for the nominal voltage, to detect an actual emitted voltage from the wind energy installation and to correct the local wattless-component nominal value after comparison with the nominal voltage.

2. The windpark of claim 1 , wherein the higher-level regulator comprises a compensation device for the connecting lines.

3. The windpark of claim 1 or 2 , wherein the higher-level regulator has a correction-value memory which includes individual correction values for the wind energy installations including section parameters for the connecting lines.

4. The windpark of claim 3 , further comprising an adaptive identification device provided for the individual correction values.

5. The windpark of claim 1 or 2 , wherein the linking point is arranged on the power transmission network and is connected to the main line via a high-voltage transformer.

6. The windpark of claim 5 , further comprising a measurement device arranged on the main-line side of the high-voltage transformer.

7. The windpark of claim 1 or 2 , wherein a control response of the distributed regulator has a time constant which is longer than that of voltage transients.

8. The windpark of claim 1 or 2 , wherein the distributed regulator has a limiting device for the nominal voltage.

9. The windpark of claim 8 , wherein the limiting device is provided at at least one lower-level regulator.

10. The windpark claim 1 or 2 , further comprising additional passive phase shifters.

11. The windpark of claim 10 , wherein capacitor banks are provided as phase shifters for the wind energy installations.

12. The windpark of claim 2 , further comprising an adaptive identification device provided for the compensation device.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Aug 31, 2023
From: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY SERVICE GMBH
To: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY SERVICE GMBH
Reel/Frame 064834/0873 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 20, 2022
From: SENVION DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
To: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY SERVICE GMBH
Reel/Frame 064371/0624 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 16, 2022
From: SENVION GMBH
To: SENVION DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 061462/0567 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 3, 2022
From: SENVION AG
To: SENVION GMBH
Reel/Frame 061068/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 18, 2022
From: SENVION SE
To: SENVION AG
Reel/Frame 060692/0328 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 23, 2015
From: REPOWER SYSTEMS SE
To: SENVION SE
Reel/Frame 034806/0074 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 21, 2015
From: REPOWER SYSTEMS AG
To: REPOWER SYSTEMS SE
Reel/Frame 034786/0585 →