Abstract
The high penetration of renewable energy sources in the past few years has led the utilities to necessitate the grid interconnection studies (GIS) to limit the problems that maybe appear in the grid from this penetration. GIS are obligatory to design the wind farm (WF) connection and verify its compliance with regulatory grid codes and international standards at the design stage. The paper presents how WFs could be complied with the Jordanian grid code using a hybrid STATCOM system. A grid-connected WF is modeled using the DIgSILENT program to examine the operational voltages and reactive power capabilities to determine the need for reactive power compensation. For more practical considerations, all information about the WF and the transmission grid components and conditions set in this paper were collected from the wind turbine producers and the utility. The results show that the performance of the WF is acceptable over the full range of operational voltages for different scenarios specified in the grid code and a 40 MVAr STATCOM system should be used to compensate the difference between the required reactive power and the reactive power capability of the WF.
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