Can LAVTS in a wind farm improve its overall power quality?
Regarding how WHI’s turbines could be used to help improve the power quality of wind farms, here is what One Cycle Control wrote in a grant application they submitted for a project that Oak Creek Energy, a wind farm owner and developer, Southern California Edison, a major utility, and WHI would do with them which would eventually lead to field-testing the technology: “Since the OCC-Wind Power Controls (WPC) enable WHI’s understory turbines to operate at variable speed, the turbines can produce power at lower wind speeds resulting in more gradual transitions in the generated-power ramp-up and ramp-down of the wind farm, useful for smoothing the dynamic variations of power generation in the power distribution network The dynamic correction of VARs (reactive power caused by induction generators) stabilizes the voltage at the collector to extend connection time.
