Compensation of Reactive Power of Isolated Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power Systems

Abstract

This paper presents the automatic reactive power control of an isolated wind-diesel hybrid power system with a synchronous generator (SG) for a diesel genset and an induction generator (IG) with wind energy conversion systems (WECS) to generate electricity. To reduce the gap between reactive power generation and demand, a variable source of reactive power is used such as static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). The mathematical model of the system based on reactive power flow equations is developed. Three examples of the wind-diesel hybrid power systems are considered with different wind power generation capacities to study the effect of the wind power generation on the system performance. The study is based on small signal analysis by considering IEEE type-1 excitation system for the SG. The paper also shows the transient performance of the hybrid systems for 1 % step increase in reactive power load and 1 % step increase in reactive power load plus 1 % step increase in input wind power.