Bibliographic Review of FACTS and HVDC Applications in Wind Power Systems

Abstract

With more emphasis being laid on clean and renewable sources of energy, engineers look for the best possible ways to harness the wind energy to the maximum extent. FACTs controllers that were earlier being used at the transmission level find their use at generation level when it comes to extracting reliable and quality power from Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). This article presents a review of the important modeling techniques employed for developing FACTs controllers and examines the role of HVDC-Light transmission in exploiting the Off-shore wind energy resources.