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“Control and Grid Integration of Wind Energy
Systems”
The Theme: The increasing penetration of wind energy in the power system has produced stringent modification in the grid code of
several countries. For instance nowadays it is expected that wind energy conversion systems remain temporarily connected during typical
faults, e.g. voltage sags, to avoid compromising the stability of the entire power system. In the near future it is forecasted that wind energy
conversion systems may have to provide some sort of frequency regulation control, for instance using the kinetic energy stored in the
blades to supply droop power and inertia emulation. For relatively weak utilities, wind integration may require the application of energy
storage system, power smoothing schemes, compensation of the grid negative sequence voltages in weak utilities, etc.
When moving from the land to off-shore locations, integration of wind energy system will face new issues. In addition to efficiency and
reliability, size and weight will be important because expensive infrastructure is required to support the components required for off-shore
power conversion. Also some issues as the selection of the topology for grid collection, e.g. parallel vs. series, the methodology and
control system for the transmission of energy from off-shore locations, etc., are important issues when moving the wind energy systems
from land to sea.
In the last ten years considerable research has been realised in the field of wind energy systems and wind energy integration to the grid.
The main objective of this Special Section dedicated to the Control and Grid Integration of Wind Energy Systems is to highlight the
latest advances in this field. Topics of interest of this Special Section include, but are not limited to:
 Control system and power electronic topologies required to provide ride-through capability to wind energy conversion system.
 Novel power electronic topologies for grid integration of wind turbines and wind farms. Including but not limited to: active NPC
converters, power converters with flying capacitors, matrix converter topologies, etc.
 Power electronic and control methods to provide grid support. For instance droop control of wind generators, inertia emulation,
energy storage system, power smoothing schemes, etc.
 Power electronic, control and hardware topologies for grid collection and energy transmission from off-shore wind energy
systems.
 Industrial electronic required for the integration of wind energy systems to weak grids; including compensation of voltage
unbalances, power balancing schemes, four-leg converters to eliminate zero sequence components etc. Wind-diesel system are
considered as a special case of a weak grid.
 Control of power electronics converters in the presence of voltage and frequency non-idealities
 Algorithms for in-situ detection of failures in generators and power electronic used by a typical wind energy conversion system.
 Sensorless control of drives and power converters for grid integration of wind energy systems.
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Timetable
Deadline for manuscript submissions
January the 31st, 2012
Information about manuscript acceptance
Estimated publication date
May 2012
August 2012
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Editor-in-Chief:
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